One might conclude it makes a lot of sense to insure business data after considering Tableau’s report that included Ponemon’s estimate that the “average total cost of a data breach was estimated at $3.62 million.”  The December 2017 report entitled “2018 Top 10 Business Intelligence Trends” included the…

Continue Reading Are you kidding me? Only 15% of US companies have insurance for their data!

The New York Times reported that Uber fired it security officer after “two hackers stole data about the company’s riders and drivers — including phone numbers, email addresses and names — from a third-party server and then approached Uber and demanded $100,000 to delete their copy of the data.” The…

Continue Reading Uber paid a ransom to hackers who stole 57 million Uber records last year!

On November 29th the US Supreme Court will consider the case of US v. Carpenter where “police acquired the data from Carpenter’s wireless carriers without a warrant showing probable cause”  which led to Timothy Carpenter’s conviction that he was  “leading a gang of robbers” and the “prosecution produced cellphone-tower data…

Continue Reading Will the Supreme Court rely on a 1979 case (think 18,134 Internet years) for Internet/cellphone privacy in 2017?

Among a number of recommendations to avoid Spearphishing (aka Business Email Compromise – BEC) the FBI recommends that “employees to use two-factor authentication to access corporate e-mail accounts.” The November 14, 2017 FBI News Report entitled “FBI Tech Tuesday—Digital Defense Against Business E-mail Compromises” included this advice about…

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Darkreading reported that every “business with BYOD and corporate mobile device users across the globe has been exposed to mobile malware.”  The November 17, 2017 report entitled “Mobile Malware Incidents Hit 100% of Businesses” included these comments:

…BYOD devices are usually more susceptible to attack than corporate devices…

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In testimony before the US Senate we hear that “Equifax, and not consumers, that owns all the granular data collected about them, and that consumers cannot request to exit the company’s files.”  The Washington Post’s report on November 8, 2017 entitled “Equifax says it owns all its data about…

Continue Reading Whoa! Did you know that Equifax claims to own your data?

Darkreading reported that criminals are “using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to populate search results with malicious links and distribute the Zeus Panda Banking Trojan through a compromised Word document.”  The November 3, 2017 article entitled “Hackers Poison Google Search Results to Deliver Zeus Panda” included these comments:

SEO…

Continue Reading Think twice before relying on search engine results since they may have MALWARE links!

Darkreading reported that “mobile messaging apps are rising in favor as the newest Dark Web alternatives that crooks have landed upon to do business with one another.”   The October 26, 2017 report entitled “Dark Web Marketplaces’ New Home: Mobile Messaging Apps”  has the subtitle “Telegram, Discord, Whatsapp …

Continue Reading Watch out!! “Mobile Messaging Apps” are the new home for the Dark Web!