USB drive users need to exercise caution when throwing away or recycling those devices, according to a Wednesday study from Comparitech. Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire purchased 200 used USB flash drives—half from the US, half from the UK—to determine how securely data on the drive was stored before...
Is Your Business Vulnerable to Cyberattack? Understanding Your Risks and Protecting Your Sensitive Data
Regardless of what size your business is, you shouldn't ignore cybercrime. Everyone is a target. Too many small businesses believe they are too little for cybercriminals to target them, thinking their data has no value. According to the Ponemon Institute's 2016 State of Cybersecurity in Small and Medium-Sized Business study,...
773 Million Email Addresses Compromised in New Data Breach
The latest data breach to hit the internet isn't an attack on a big internet company like Facebook or Yahoo, when one billion accounts were breached. Instead, it's a massive collection of email addresses and passwords compiled from a number of data breaches. Dubbed Collection #1, this data dump includes...
Protect Your Business With This New Year’s Resolution | Start a Security To-Do List
Protecting an organization depends on deep knowledge and experience, but a security to-do list can go a long way toward locking things down. The old saying that security is only as strong as your weakest link could not be more true today. Bad actors are targeting every element of the...
FBI and Department of Homeland Security Issue Critical Ransomware Alert
On Monday the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an alert for SamSam ransomware also known as MSIL/Samas.A. Hackers armed with SamSam targeted multiple industries, including some within critical infrastructure predominantly withing the United States. How SamSam Ransomware Attacks Happen The actors exploit Windows servers to gain persistent...