Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms
Why hack me?
When we are doing post-breach cleanup for new clients, many of them ask us the question, “Our business is not that interesting, so why would anyone hack me?” They may be a restaurant chain who thinks the only items of value they have are recipes that aren’t very hard to reproduce, or they could be a nonprofit …
What is IPv6 and Why Should You Care?
You mean we are running out of IP addresses on the Internet??? Yes, it’s true, sort of. IP addresses are used by computers to find each other on the Internet.
Each device has its own IP address (roughly, because some devices hide behind other devices such as a firewall, which uses its IP address for those devices).
We have been …
"is a prolific problem" that is going to get worse before it gets better," says Dean Kinsman, special agent in the FBI's cyber division.
Password Security
People choose bad passwords. It’s not that they are bad people, they are busy and don’t know better. At Netflix, they will use netflix123 and move quickly on to their goal: watching movies. Or they will use the same password at Facebook, Amazon, their bank, and mysecuritystinks.com. When the latter site gets hacked, the hacker has …
Who cares about intercepting your BlackBerry?
This Christian Science Monitor article reveals some startling information about how different nations use electronic surveillance for gathering commercial intel. This quote from the article says it all:
“America’s real crown jewels are not our government secrets but our intellectual property,” writes former White House cyber security adviser Richard Clarke in a 2010 book …
This website has a searchable chronology of all reported data breaches 2005 to the present.
You can search by the organizational types that were breached (government, educational, financial, nonprofit) and the type of breach (unintended disclure, hacking or malware, payment card freud), the month and year it occured and in some cases it will even tell you what the damage was. …
Don’t ever click links in email. Don’t ever click links in email.
Did I say that twice? Good, maybe now it will sink in. This article from the New York Times is about spearphishing, which are emails that are targeted directly at you or your organization and usually contain a link to a website that does bad …
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Why hack me?
When we are doing post-breach cleanup for new clients, many of them ask us the question, “Our business is not that interesting, so why would anyone hack me?” They may be a restaurant chain who thinks the only items of value they have are recipes that aren’t very hard to reproduce, or they could be a nonprofit …