In 2016, global retail e-commerce sales reached an estimated $22.049 trillion, an increase of 6 percent from 2015. By 2020, sales are expected to top $27 trillion. Unfortunately, this increased spending has made e-commerce transactions an attractive target for cyberthieves. Cybercrime losses are on track to increase from $3 trillion in 2015 to $6 trillion […]
The biggest threat to your data may not come from external hackers. Find out how to guard against intentional or accidental internal cyber breaches. The NSA leaks we learned about are a constant reminder of just how vulnerable data is and how this vulnerability can result in data breaches by organization insiders. As Reuters reported, […]
Some of you may be old enough to remember the AT&T marketing campaign from the mid-1980s that encouraged people to “Reach out and touch someone.” Fraudsters are taking that advice, but instead of “touching” they are scamming small businesses and individuals. And because we’re in the throes of tax season, IRS- and tax-related scams are […]
The headlines are loaded with corporate security breaches. While most large companies have proper security systems in place, it still keeps happening with alarming frequency. These are not mom-and-pop companies, either; these are multimillion dollars corporations that should have known better. From 2009 to 2010, for example, the social media giant Twitter had eight of […]
Personal security and identity theft expert, Robert Siciliano, joins me to discuss what you should do to protect your business in the event of a natural disaster or cyber-attack. When Americans were urged to go on high alert after 9/11, personal security, identity theft expert, speaker and author Robert Siciliano was already ahead of the […]