News Recap: The White House’s Cybersecurity Secrets

By | May 2nd, 2014|Uncategorized|

This week, the White House joined the conversation about the current state of cybersecurity when it shared its policies on alerting the public to threats and vulnerabilities.According to David Sanger of The New York Times the discussion started when Michael Daniel, White House cybersecurity coordinator, published a post to the White House blog discussing the [...]

News Recap: Interactive Cyberthreat Map by the Kaspersky Lab

By | April 11th, 2014|Uncategorized|

While many dedicate their careers to spreading the word about cyber security, this week’s news about the Heartbleed vulnerability has put cyber security in the spotlight, giving the world a new found perspective on just how susceptible the Internet can be.Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times said “the bug known as Heartbleed... is a [...]

News Recap: Identity Obese – What it Means

By | March 28th, 2014|Uncategorized|

It is common practice in today’s digital age to save personal information to online retail, banking and social accounts. However, storing information online makes you a target to identity thieves interested in collecting and selling personal information on the black market. There’s a new term for users who have too much information stored online: “identity [...]

News Recap: Realities of Cyber Threats Continue to Concern Financial Sector

By | March 14th, 2014|Uncategorized|

As companies and organizations continue to fall prey to cyber attacks, the financial sector is on high alert and hoping for changes that might alleviate their worst fears.John McCrank of the Chicago Tribune reported on how the current state of cyber security is impacting the world’s exchanges. McCrank quotes Magnus Bocker, chief executive of Singapore [...]

News Recap: Social Engineering Threats to Businesses

By | February 27th, 2014|Uncategorized|

A few weeks ago, we shared the story of @N_is_stolen; where Naoki Hiroshima’s online accounts were attacked and held at ransom, in order to have access to his Hiroshima’s coveted “$50,000” Twitter handle. A recent update in his story arose: Twitter was able resolve the incident by restoring Naoki with his @N handle. Megan Guess [...]

News Recap: Adding Social Verification to the Multifactor Authentication Mix

By | February 24th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Multifactor authentication is nothing new. In fact, “secret questions” to reset passwords or verify your identity have been around for a long time. However, social networking has made it easier than ever for cyber criminals to find personal information often used to answer “secret questions,” such as a mother’s maiden name, a favorite pet or [...]

News Recap: PayPal Hack Reminds Us To Travel Securely

By | February 14th, 2014|Uncategorized|

This week, PayPal CEO David Marcus had his credit information swiped while traveling abroad in the UK. Marcus tweeted, “My card (with EMV chip) got skimmed while in the UK. Ton of fraudulent txns. Wouldn't have happened if merchant accepted PayPal...” Ashley Feinberg of Gizmodo reported, “When you own a company specializing in online payments, [...]

News Recap: Cyber Attacks through Social Engineering

By | February 7th, 2014|Uncategorized|

In today’s digital age, nearly everything we do online requires an account composed of a username, password and other important personal data – including answers to private questions for password reset options – unique to each individual. It’s these pieces of information that are the foundation for a person’s “digital life,” or what you could [...]

News Recap: Feb. 1 is National Change Your Password Day

By | January 31st, 2014|Uncategorized|

With the recent release of 2013’s worst passwords, there has been a good deal of discussion about the importance of good password habits. And what better time for this discussion than now, considering National Change Your Password Day is this Saturday, February 1st.SpiceWorks’ Peter Tsai discusses password protection, the dangers that poor password security presents [...]

News Recap: The Results Are In For 2013’s 25 Worst Passwords

By | January 24th, 2014|Uncategorized|

Every year security firm Splashdata pulls the most common stolen passwords to create a list of the year’s worst passwords. The consensus is in for 2013, and “123456” has moved up a spot to be the most commonly used and guessed password of the year. Here’s a look at the worst passwords of 2012 for [...]

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