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You probably know that criminals have long figured out how to trick people into handing over their credit card information. One way is the skimmer. If you thought you'd never fall for that trick, think again. Turns out, skimmers can look a lot like the reader that unlocks doors that lead to bank machines.
And because it is very...
Watch an episode of SVU, Law & Order or CSI on TV, and you’re bound to hear about doctor-patient confidentiality in hushed, almost reverent terms. Go to a new doctor’s office and, amidst all the other paperwork, you’ll be asked to sign a form enumerating your federally-mandated medical privacy rights. Call a hospital to check in on a friend...
For those who think I've been beating the war drums about data breaches a lot, take a look at this chart brought to you by InformationIsBeautiful.net. The bubble chart shows all the breaches from the past few years in an easy-to-visualize format.
As I've said before, it's no longer a question of whether or not you will by breached, it's...
There is an Apple enthusiast I know – and I'm sure you have a similar friend – who used to gleefully brag about all the suspicious links he could click on from his phone or computer with no fear of consequences.
But after Apple’s confirmation this weekend that it was in the process of creating and issuing patches to resolve...
Yesterday a cybersecurity firm reported that 360 million newly stolen credentials were available for sale on the deep web. The breach reportedly includes one attack that alone yielded 105 million records. Taken as a whole, that would make this aggregate compromise the largest breach of credentials to date, eclipsing the Adobe and Target breaches both in size and level...
The storm of consumer-focused data breaches started off as intermittent downpours -- Choicepoint, TJ Maxx, SONY, LinkedIn, Twitter, Adobe Systems -- and is now a torrent: Target, Neiman Marcus, Kickstarter, White Lodging, the Sands Casino, and now everyone who’s attended or worked at the University of Maryland since 1998. In each case, hackers weren’t after the company’s intellectual property...
I was on ABC News Radio yesterday right after news broke that the University of Maryland had suffered a major data breach involving information belonging to faculty, students and employees--anyone who had been issued an identification card. The exposed information included the name, social security number and date of birth of more than 300,000 people.
There have been hundreds of...
If some in the small business community thought to themselves, “better them than us,” after hearing that hackers had breached mega chains Target, Neiman Marcus and (possibly) Michaels, their bliss was short-lived. Reports surfaced last week that the cyber-intruders accessed Targets’ systems by first hacking one of their (comparatively) small regional contractors, Fazio Mechanical Services.
Fazio, though, is in good...
Regular viewers of MTV’s series “Catfish” (in which online-only, deceptive relationships are pulled into the real world, albeit with cameras running) might think that the show just highlights the extreme cases of a common problem – people who tell lies in search of a personal connection. For instance, studies show that about 81% of people lie in their online...
To listen to some House Republicans at the Target hearing Wednesday, and the Senate Republicans on Tuesday, one would be forgiven for thinking that the massive data breaches experienced by customers of Target, Neiman Marcus and the hotel management chain White Lodging were serious enough to warrant two Congressional hearings (and one more to come), but not a single...