As COVID-19 keeps people at home and away from their enterprises, the number of small business owners who are at risk of closing up shop is at unprecedented levels. Although this sector is an integral part of the U.S. economy, non-essential businesses have been forced to modify or cease operations in attempts to slow the [...]
What’s driving financial wellness for consumers in 2020? Holiday stress in 2019. Even though 2 out of 3 consumers surveyed by Experian, say they save money for holiday shopping, an analysis of the same group of consumers shows that the majority are stressed on adding to their debt and staying within their budget this season. ¹ After [...]
The bad news: For the fifth year running, the financial services industry has the lowest trust level of any business category in the U.S. The good news: The same research that uncovered that lack of trust also reveals how financial service firms can win consumer trust—and turnkey identity protection services and credit education programs can [...]
The takedown of two popular dark web marketplaces is making headlines around the world today. The US, Europol and the Netherlands announced that after a global law enforcement operation, AlphaBay, a site with more than 200,000 users and $1 billion in illicit sales, has been shut down. Following AlphaBay’s takedown on July 4th, Europol reported [...]
Image courtesy of IBM. IBM just released IBM Z, a new mainframe that reportedly can run more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day – a staggering 18 times faster than any other platform. Since encryption is difficult to do at scale, IBM hopes this mainframe will help banks, healthcare providers, government agencies [...]
Yahoo recently disclosed that it has discovered a breach of more than one billion user accounts that occurred in August 2013. This is believed to be a separate attack from the breach Yahoo reported in September. Bob Lord, chief information security officer at Yahoo, said the stolen user account information may include names, email addresses, [...]
Recent advancements in virtual reality (VR) have ushered in one of the most exciting times in technology, with consumers and businesses alike realizing VR’s potential for transforming and enhancing experiences. VR has proven to be so much more than a vehicle for gaming. We’re still in the early stages of understanding the full implications of [...]
Regardless of where you stand politically, one thing we can all agree on is that the topic of cybersecurity took a prominent role in this year’s presidential elections – from concerns around hacks at polling sites to alleged cyber-attacks against the candidates themselves. Now that the election period has come to a close, the outcome [...]
Each October, we band together with other businesses, nonprofits, and agencies to observe National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Now in its 13th year, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance to educate consumers, corporations, and institutions about cybersecurity awareness. The past four weeks we [...]
Photo by: DownDetector Friday was an interesting one for Internet users in the U.S. A large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack took down a number of sites including Twitter, Netflix, and Amazon for a large part of the day. Many of us were left with a newfound sense of how much we [...]
