Since October 2013 there have been more than 17,642 BEC victims so the FBI recommended that businesses be “wary of e-mail-only wire transfer requests and requests involving urgency” and to pick “up the phone and verify legitimate business partners.” The April 4, 2016 alert entitled “FBI Warns of Dramatic
Cybersecurity Alert: monetization of malware is one of the 7 biggest threats!
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There’s no substitute for training employees to avoid opening obviously suspect email and attachments, and HP Enterprise (HPE) issued a report which disclosed “a continued rise in attackers’ success at infiltrating enterprise networks” and as a result “defenders must accelerate their approach to detection, protection, response, and recovery.” The HPE…
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More advice on how to avoid Ransomware – verify & test disaster recovery backup!
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It’s one thing to backup data, and another to verify the backup was a success, but you also should test restoring backup data so you can “fix the issues before data gremlins such as hard drive failures, natural disasters, or ransomware delete your” data and intellectual property according to the…
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Good advice from the FBI -9 ways to avoid Ransomware including not using the “same password for everything”!
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Ransomware is in the news every day, so it makes sense to follow the FBI’s warning to avoid paying a ransom of “hundreds to thousands of dollars” for “a type of malware that infects computers and restricts users’ access to their files or threatens the permanent destruction of their information…”…
Wow FTC Commissioner confesses she fell for email scam & announces her resignation!
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After Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Julie Brill got a friend’s “email with an innocuous-looking Google Drive attachment. But after clicking on the link and entering in some of her personal information on the resulting page, she soon realized the truth: This was not a Google site at all.” The…
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Amazingly enough Hulk Hogan’s verdict may improve Internet privacy!
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The Washington Post opined that the “$115 million legal body slam Friday against Gawker Media could have deeper implications for the debate between the public’s right to know (and the media’s right to report) and an individual’s right to privacy.” The March 21, 2016 article entitled “Hulk Hogan’s $140.1…
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PCI may be in jeopardy with federal investigation underway!
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Since there are no laws regulating credit card security the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Special Reports from 9 companies to disclose their “data security compliance auditing and its role in protecting consumers’ information and privacy” under the PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance assessment for DSS (Data Security Standards) and…
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Malicious Insiders are high on the list of 2016 cloud cyber security “Treacherous 12”!
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The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) identified its dirty dozen cloud security threats “to provide organizations with an up-to-date, expert-informed understanding of cloud security concerns in order to make educated risk management decisions regarding cloud adoption strategies. The February 2016 CSA report entitled “The Treacherous 12 Cloud Computing Top Threats…
Can the FCC’s proposed new ISP rules succeed in protecting privacy?
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FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Chair Tom Wheeler proposed that ISPs (Internet Service Providers) “would be able to use and share customer information with their affiliates to market other communications-related services unless you “opt out” and ask them not to. All other uses and sharing of your personal data would require…
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Super settlement for “Supercookie” privacy law violation which tracked +100 million cell users!
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Verizon confessed its violation of privacy laws and agreed to “pay a fine of $1,350,000 and implement a compliance plan that requires it to obtain customer opt-in consent prior to sharing a customer’s UIDH [Unique Identifier Headers] with a third party to deliver targeted advertising.” On March 7, 2016 the…