The winter holiday season is a special time of year. We see more festive lights, hear more cheerful music, and spend more time with family. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most lucrative seasons for cybercriminals. Forty-percent of all yearly cybercrime occurs during October, November, and December. While you may consider yourself cyber-aware, others in [...]
Current shows like Silicon Valley and Mr. Robot and movies like Blackhat have brought hackers into the ranks of pop culture’s most popular protagonists. Until recently, hackers in movies have largely been represented as zany sidekicks or mysterious recluses. But now hackers, and especially vigilante white-hat hackers, are being portrayed like real life, albeit unlikely, [...]
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 [...]
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) kicked off this month and as a result, more eyes than ever are on cybersecurity. This week, we’re spotlighting a few recent national stories we expect to be a key part of the conversation among those participating with us in the month-long celebration. Cybersecurity and the 2016 Election For [...]
Cyber security is a shared responsibility. That’s why every October, businesses, government agencies, universities, associations, nonprofit organizations and individuals come together to participate in National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) to promote online safety awareness. NCSAM was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure all digital citizens have the resources they [...]
In January, we shared predictions about the trends that would dominate the cybersecurity space in 2016. Among those was a prediction that Apple devices would no longer be “immune” to attack and as they gained popularity, would become a more desirable target than ever for cyber criminals. Once seemingly impossible to penetrate, we’re already seeing [...]
Hundreds of thousands of tech enthusiasts and innovators from around the world make their annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. The technology conference and trade show, whose attendees last year represented 82 percent of Fortune 100 companies, features some of the most exciting and newest technologies, encompassing everything [...]
Last week we recapped the big happenings of 2015 for Experian. This week, we’re switching gears to look ahead to 2016 and the trends we expect to dominate in the year to come. All eyes on mobile The rise of mobile payments (and recent participation from major players like Apple, Android and financial institutions like [...]
Today airs the final episode in our pilot podcast series! To wind down the last few days of 2015, we sat down with Adam Dolby, Encap Security’s vice president of business development. Prior to joining Encap Security, Dolby was focused on banking, ATM networks, and card processing. His expertise lies within multi-factor authentication, security, and [...]
Each day our lives become increasingly connected to our friends and family around the world thanks in large part to social media. As of September, Facebook now boasts 1.55 billion monthly active users across the globe. Instagram has more than 400 million monthly users. Our favorite 140-character site has just over 320 million monthly tweeters. [...]
