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When Deleting Malware Isn't Enough
Citadel, a particularly potent strain of banking malware, has been pestering IT security consultants for the last two years. ThreatPost reports that the latest strain has found a way to return to...
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Why Comcast-Style Customer Service Would Be Death to Small IT Contractors
If you have eight minutes to spare and you enjoy listening to grueling customer service phone calls, we strongly recommend this piece of undercover journalism by techie journalist Ryan Block.In the...
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Old Technology Is a Cyber Liability
In last week’s blog post, "Black Hat Security Conference: Hackers Can Steal Your Car,” we looked at how new technology – the Internet-of-Things and Internet-enabled cars – exposed consumers to greater...
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Dairy Queen's Data Leaked Like Ice Cream from a Cone on a Hot Day
As a last hurrah before summer fades, hackers got a taste for ice cream and decided to attack the summertime staple Dairy Queen. We're only partially kidding.In the winter, we saw hackers go after...
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Net Neutrality Protest Sees Significant Engagement
The Wall Street Journal reports net neutrality advocates coordinated a protest across the Internet that had companies like Netflix, Reddit, Mozilla, and others voicing their displeasure at the FTC. As...
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Home Depot Data Breach Lawsuit Raises Question: What Are "Reasonable"...
According Insurance Journal, only one day after Home Depot acknowledged that a data breach had exposed millions of its customers' credit and debit card information, a customer had already filed a...
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Corporate research firm Forrester predicts big changes for cyber security in 2015, including an increase in businesses looking to spend money on data security. But not all of it is good...
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Higher Tech Security Budgets Predicted for 2015
Corporate research firm Forrester predicts big changes for cyber security in 2015, including an increase in businesses looking to spend money on data security. But not all of it is good...
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California has a reputation as one of the most progressive states in the country, and that certainly applies to California data breach laws. It was no surprise when the state recently enacted a series...
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CA Data Breach Laws Shake Up IT Contractor Liabilities
California has a reputation as one of the most progressive states in the country, and that certainly applies to California data breach laws. It was no surprise when the state recently enacted a series...
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The US Is Getting a Central Cyber Intelligence Agency!
In response to the five-fold increase in cyber attacks since 2009, the US government is establishing the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, a centralized department that will analyze...
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How Much Cyber Liability Insurance Is Enough?
US health insurance provider Anthem has a $100-million Cyber Liability Insurance policy, but with 80 million people affected by the breach, that limit might not be enough to notify every customer,...
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A kill-switch-enabled mobile device allows mobile users to "brick" their phone, encrypting all its data and essentially making it useless to thieves who steal it.So are kill switches good for your...
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Can Kill Switches Boost Security for Your Clients?
A kill-switch-enabled mobile device allows mobile users to "brick" their phone, encrypting all its data and essentially making it useless to thieves who steal it.So are kill switches good for your...
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SC Magazine reports on a survey of 180 small-business owners that were asked about their knowledge of state data breach laws. The results were lukewarm, showing…33 percent were very confident in their...
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Most of Your Clients Don't Understand State Data Breach Laws
SC Magazine reports on a survey of 180 small-business owners that were asked about their knowledge of state data breach laws. The results were lukewarm, showing…33 percent were very confident in their...
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IT contractors who work with healthcare companies are no doubt familiar with how difficult it can be to meet the high standards set by HIPAA and HITECH data privacy laws. Fortunately, new HIPAA...
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Good News: Updated HIPAA Guidelines Take Some Pressure off IT Professionals
IT contractors who work with healthcare companies are no doubt familiar with how difficult it can be to meet the high standards set by HIPAA and HITECH data privacy laws. Fortunately, new HIPAA...
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A recent Acunetix study of over 15,000 websites and 5,500 companies unveiled startling numbers. Network scans performed on over 1.9 million files revealed that…Almost four in five web applications were...
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