In cyber security, you have to be perfect 100% of the time. Cyber criminals only have to be lucky once. That’s why, in cyber security, it is also critical to be prepared if the worst does happen with a practical and well-rehearsed incident response plan. You can make your digital life much more secure by […]
10 Billion Password Leak Sets New Record, at Least for Now!
July 4, 2024, brought cyber crime fireworks worldwide as 10 billion passwords (yes, that’s 10 with 9 MORE ZEROS – 10,000,000,000) were leaked on a hacking forum. It’s being called RockYou2024, the most significant password leak in history, at least for now. However, the information dump primarily reveals previously leaked passwords, including another large-scale leak […]
How a Vendor Cyber Breach Can Make You Collateral Damage
Imagine having a cyber breach and losing access to all your organization’s technology—accounts receivable, accounts payable, appointment scheduling, everything except that landline that your Gen Z employees secretly roll their eyes at. You can revert to using pen and paper, right? You could probably manage. You were born in the 1900s, the era of scrappy […]
Work and Personal Devices: The Essential Guide to Separating
How many work and personal devices are you juggling between? How many devices do you need to maintain an ethical, practical, and user-friendly balance between the two? If you are a single device user for the sake of convenience and blur the work and personal lines, you could be a serious cyber security risk. Based […]
Business Email Compromise: The Unseen Dangers in Your Inbox
Business Email Compromise (BEC) recently targeted Arlington, Massachusetts, a town of about 40,000, and exposed a significant cybercrime problem. Jim Feeney, Arlington’s town manager, described the crime in detail to his citizens. In September 2023, Town employees received legitimate emails from a known vendor working on the Arlington High School Building Project regarding payment processing […]
Don’t Be Your Cyber Security Weakest Link!
Strong cyber security begins with basic steps that should be executed by anyone and everyone in your organization. If you feel like you have heard the following advice before, it’s because hackers are still successfully exploiting these weaknesses every day. A Stanford University study found that 88% of data breaches were caused by employee error. […]