The “bad guys” no longer are the gangs roaming around with chains and baseball bats. Many are probably geeky little waifs with thick glasses – organized cyber crime – and these thugs are looking for small businesses to brawl on with their brains. They want sensitive data from these businesses, and yours may be next. […]
By Tony Pepper I guess there can’t be many of us that haven’t heard of the term “Cybercrime” – but what actually is it? Well, there are many forms of cybercrime: online scams and fraud, identity theft, attacks on computer systems and networks, the spreading of computer viruses and malware, hacking, and distributed denial of service […]
Today is National Data Privacy Day. It began in the United States and Canada in January 2008, and is now a global celebration observed annually on January 28. With all the recent headlines about data breaches at major retailers such as Target and Neiman Marcus, now is a perfect time to focus on protecting your […]
Every day, it seems another security breach makes headline news. Companies such as Apple, Twitter, Facebook, The New York Times — even federal government agencies have fallen victim to cyber-crime this year. Just last week my business credit card company fraud department alerted me my account had been compromised in a cyber-attack. While big companies […]