This year, the holiday shopping season began the moment Halloween came to an end. As shopping picks up, both online and off, it’s important to keep the safety of your personal information in mind. Here’s a quick recap of recent news stories and some helpful tips to keep you safe and secure: The Basics: Safe [...]
Every day we click, like, post, tag, and swipe our lives across our favorite social media channels. The big players, like Facebook and Twitter, provide a life-sharing platform for billions and billions of users. But new channels are constantly competing for our attention and information. Social media is a fantastic way to keep in touch [...]
With all the excitement and hype surrounding podcasts like “Serial” and “This American Life,” we finally decided it was time we hosted an ear-bud friendly conversation of our own. Next week, we are thrilled to debut a brand new podcast called “Firewall Chats.” Our pilot series explores five hot topics with five talented industry experts. [...]
If you’ve been to a music festival recently, you may have noticed something convenient about your wristband. Sure, it serves its main purpose of getting you into the event, but with recent technology, it now has the capability to do quite a bit more. Take for instance Austin City Limits music festival, which took place [...]
In Forrester Wave’s latest report, Experian was identified as one of the top breach notification and response service providers in the market. In the report, six companies were rated on a variety of skills and services, including strategy, offerings, and market presence. Experian was announced as a strong performer in the space. We are proud [...]
A large amount of tech coverage has recently been devoted to zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks and the industry’s widespread attempts to stop them. The average Internet user has never encountered the term “zero-day attack” but it’s one that we are going to hear more about in future. A zero-day attack occurs when a hacker exploits [...]
Earlier this week, Target struck a deal with Visa to reimburse thousands of financial institutions around $67 million dollars for costs resulting from the company’s 2013 data breach. These costs included reissuing credit and debit cards and handling an increased number of customer inquiries. Target is expected to reach a similar deal with MasterCard. Target’s [...]
We’ve seen some exciting initiatives underway internationally that encourage important cyber security education. Just this past month a Scottish secondary school implemented a groundbreaking new course on cybercrime that gives students insight into real-world cybercrime cases. The program is the first of its kind and The Daily Record reports that it has attracted widespread attention [...]
Last month, password manager LastPass announced that their system had been hacked, exposing email addresses and encrypted master passwords for its users. Users were notified and prompted to change their master passwords. Shortly after news broke of a flaw found in Apple’s Keychain software that could let malicious software steal passwords across apps on your [...]
Have you seen one of these lately? If you have, you are not alone. These pop-ups are called scareware and their sole purpose is to try and trick consumers into downloading malicious pieces of software or contacting a malicious entity who will then try to secure personal or financial information. Scareware has been around for [...]
