The IRS experienced a breach that is changing the way businesses and consumers think about personal information. Reporters attribute the IRS breach to a crime syndicate in Russia, who used personal information obtained elsewhere to exploit the Get Transcript feature on the IRS website. They successfully exploited 104,000 individuals and filed nearly $50 million in [...]
There has been a noticeable uptick in the number of criminal attacks against healthcare facilities in the last five years. Ponemon recently released its Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy and Security of Healthcare Data, which shared a 125 percent increase in cyber attacks targeting healthcare data. The major shift in healthcare data breaches, according [...]
This infographic and blog post is shared by Roscoe Crowell, freelance writer and security expert at toptenreviews.com.Year after year malware continues to increase in volume and simultaneously becomes more dangerous. Last year alone, approximately 27 million new strains of malware were created and released into the wild. That’s about 74,000 new viruses per day.So what [...]
