Passwords are tough to remember, which is why researchers at the Universities of York and Glasgow are testing a new alternative to passwords: Facelock. This new password alternative allows a user to look at a grid of faces and single out one familiar face into order to log in securely to a website.Rob Jenkins, the [...]
Summer is here and that means it’s travel season. What most people don’t think about when planning their vacation is how to keep their identity, PII and financial information secure while they’re away. Cyber criminals and identity thieves are opportunistic and will be on the lookout this summer to strike while the iron is hot. [...]
This Monday, we got a good reminder that you always need to mind your security p’s and q’s when posting to social media sites. Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson accidentally posted a picture of his personal credit card (and security code!) after enjoying a meal at Spices in San Francisco. This was an innocent mistake that [...]
This post is part of our cyberSAFE series focusing on SMB financial and reputational risks. You can learn more about the financial and reputational risks SMBs face during every phase of business growth by registering for our upcoming webinar on June 10th at 12 PM CT. This cyberSAFE guest blog post comes to you from [...]
This week, online security has seen both ups and downs in the headlines. Online auction website, eBay, sent out a news release announcing that user passwords and personal information had been compromised by a cyber attack. On the other side of the coin, Facebook announced that in it’s latest round of updates, it has changed [...]
This week, The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) announced the launch of an intelligence center where retailers can exchange information about data breaches and threats to help protect against cybercrimes.According to the Associated Press, RILA’s president Sandy Kennedy said that retailers have a common goal: to protect their business against cyber threats.“It’s really in everyone’s [...]
Late last week, it was reported that a flaw in an online security technology could likely expose social media users personal information to malicious actors.Jodi Mardesich of ReadWrite, comments, “It's not the next Heartbleed, but a security flaw in social-login services gives you one more thing to watch out for in apps and on the [...]
Symantec’s 2014 Internet Security Threat Report recently revealed that spear phishing campaigns increased 91 percent in 2013. In addition to the increased number of spear phishing* campaigns, cyber criminals are also using stronger phishing tactics, Stacy Collett at Network World reports. Collett shared Chief Hacker at Social-Engineering.org Chris Hadnagy’s experience with spear-phishing. He has seen [...]
A few months ago we hosted a webinar about the increasing problem of child identity theft. Since then, the topic has only gotten hotter. On a daily basis we see more stories in the news and receive business inquiries about child ID theft – so we thought, why not address this issue again? Thus, on [...]
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 [...]
