By Robert Siciliano In your dreams: Sensitive customer data is impenetrable, hardware is secure, and every single IT specialist has the resources and funds to carry this out. Pinch yourself to wake up to the reality: No matter how secure the non-human end of things are, the existence of people will always mean the potential […]
Protecting customer data in your small business takes good planning, training and vigilance because serious threats come from all sides: Hardware, Software, People, and Systems. Hardware “Skimmers” are responsible for many of the infamous retail customer data breaches that have made headlines in recent years. Skimmers are hardware devices that are surreptitiously installed on your […]
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 […]
Fans of the CBS show, “The Good Wife” will remember the episode where the law firm’s computers were taken over and locked up by ransomware. Unless they agreed to make a payment to certain bank account, the firm’s computers would remain locked. Unfortunately this scenario is becoming far too common today. Mark Stefanick, who runs […]
Sorry, folks, I don’t have any cake to share for this celebration, but don’t let that stop you from participating in Data Privacy Day. There are practical things you can do today, and every day, to protect your personal information. Here are a few scenarios where people may share more information than they intend. Scenario […]