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The Tech Startup Data Problem: Hacking as a Rite of Passage?
The tech startup – there is so much attached to the image. To many, it means all-night coding sessions, wild valuations, desperate attempts to earn venture capital funding, and huge potential payoff...
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The Data Security Act of 2014: What You Need to Know
After the Data Privacy Act was reintroduced in Congress in late January, a second data breach bill made news when the Data Security Act of 2014 was introduced at its heels. Let's take a look at what...
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3 Strategies to Help Small IT Businesses Beat 2014’s Biggest Cyber Threats
Every year, Deloitte publishes its Tech Trends report, which highlights trends from the last 12 months and issues recommendations for technology professionals in the year ahead. The 2013 Tech Trends...
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Clients Care about Cyber Security All of a Sudden? Hooray! Here’s How to...
Since the major data breach at Target, everyone and their mother has been talking about data breaches, which means your clients will probably have more questions about their own cyber security. They'll...
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The Dumbest Ways to Lose Your Data
Data breaches are often preventable. That's the sad truth. Businesses get sloppy, turn off security settings, or don't practice basic data security. This truth was highlighted recently when data...
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Client Education Resources for Fighting Data Breaches
It's nice when someone does the work for you. This week, the Consumer Protection Bureau released a guide to preventing consumer data breaches, which is a helpful resource to use with clients.The...
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Developers: PayPal Wants You to Like Them (and Probably Also Wants You to...
PayPal recently ate a large slice of humble pie, acknowledging that it lost out on potential new business. The story goes that PayPal's service was never very developer-friendly. The online-payment...
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Don’t Let Your Employees Cause Your Next Data Breach
At the end of January, the Coca-Cola Company announced that nearly 80,000 of its private records had been compromised in a data breach. Among other things, the records contained some 20,000 Social...
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What Flappy Birds Can Teach You about Mobile Device Security
As part of our ongoing examination of new cyber threats, this blog has focused on mobile device vulnerability. We’ve highlighted growing mobile threats in "The Mobile Future & Why You'll Need...
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Data Breach Ripple Effects: The Scary Truth
How much does a data breach cost? Simply put, a data leak is very, very expensive. To make matters worse, you can pay for a data breach for years. The cost of the recent Target data breach, for...
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Why IT Contractors Shouldn’t Hold Their Breath for Universal Data Breach...
The design and implementation of data breach laws are complicated by the fact that breaches are often international. When a website is hacked, its users might be from many countries, and the hackers...
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Security Recommendations for Technology Businesses with Retail Clients
Earlier this week, SafeNet, a data asset security firm, published a report detailing the breakdown of 2013 data breaches by industry. The report revealed that data breaches affect various industries in...
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And Another One: Congress Proposes One More Data Breach Bill
A BankInfoSecurity article reports that Senator Jay D. Rockefeller (D – WV) submitted another data breach law in the Senate: the Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2014. Add it to the list of...
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End of XP Support from Microsoft Could Affect Retailers
According to a report by NetworkWorld, most point-of-sale systems rely on a scaled-down version of Windows XP, which means retailers could be in trouble when Microsoft stops supporting the OS this...
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Wearable Wallets = Losable, Hackable Wallets
IT professionals tend to hear conflicting stories when it comes to mobile wallets and digital currencies. Proponents talk about simple, easy transactions, while skeptics point out the numerous security...
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Is Your Refrigerator Running Malware?
NBC News reports that in six years there will be more than 30 billion internet-enabled devices, a huge increase from current levels. More and more products, from your refrigerator to your car to your...
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Proposed Bill Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switches to Fight Data Breaches
Four senators have proposed a bill that would require smartphone makers to include a "kill switch" to allow consumers to shut off phones and lock them after they're stolen. According to CNET, The...
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A Cure for Data Breaches?
In the last week, mobile phone companies have announced new products and features designed especially to enhance mobile data security. Here's what we've seen from some of the industry's heavy...
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Black to the Future: Better Security from the Next Class of Smart Phones?
In recent days, we've seen a slew of new mobile devices and apps designed to prevent data breaches. Last week's RSA conference in San Francisco provided developers, engineers, and tech companies a...
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Is It Time to Go Looking for Data Breaches?
Stop me if you've heard this one: a major U.S. retailer was hit with a massive data breach. It sounds familiar because it is. But this time, we're not talking about Target. We're actually talking about...
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