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The COVID19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus, has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Because of home-work and homeschooling measures, millions of Americans are using video conferencing for the first time. With this surge in new users, there will be many cyber security challenges.
Workplace meetings, college classes, and even children’s playdates are now being held via webcam...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion. Of those cases, 23,775 of them were business email compromises (BEC). $1.7 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints.
The back of the napkin math isn't...
While ransomware and leaky or completely unprotected databases dominated headlines in 2019, e-skimmers quietly made a killing. A major e-skimming compromise was discovered on Macy's website at the start of the holiday season in which hackers captured the payment information of a number of online shoppers. The retailer wasn't alone. American Outdoor Brands, Puma, Ticketmaster UK, British Airways, Vision Direct, Newegg, and many, many...
You couldn't go a week last year without seeing a ransomware headline in the news. And it wasn't because the media paid more attention to this relative newcomer in the area of cybercrime. Ransomware attacks on businesses skyrocketed 365 percent in 2019, and all signs point to more of the same in 2020.
As bad as the ransomware scourge was for businesses, local governments arguably had...
The global coronavirus pandemic has created a fertile field for cybercriminals seeking to prey upon the fears of their victims. In the latest episode of Third Certainty, Adam Levin discusses how people can protect themselves online.
The number of stalkerware apps detected on smartphones increased in 2019, a full 60% over the previous year according to a new report released by Kaspersky Labs.
The anti-virus company’s annual mobile malware report said stalkerware reports increased from 40,286 in 2019 to 67,500 in 2019, figures derived from data gleaned from Kaspersky product users that consented to provide statistical...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory following a ransomware attack on a natural gas compression facility.
In the warning, CISA announced that a “cyber threat actor used a Spearphising Link to obtain initial access to the organization’s information technology (IT) network before pivoting to its OT network. The threat actor then deployed...
The personal information of over 10.6 million customers of MGM Resorts has been published online.
MGM Resorts confirmed the leaked data as being the result of a data breach that occurred last year. The data includes full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birthdates, and, in some cases, passport numbers of 10,683,188 hotel guests, including celebrities and prominent public...
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) became law on January 1, 2020, and as was the case on the effective date of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union's similarly sweeping privacy legislation, it is being met with a general panic.
How dare that deadline actually pass without our data practices magically being up to snuff? That CCPA's...