celebrity data breach

Celebrity Data Stolen in Major Data Breach

A major entertainment and media law firm experienced a massive data breach that may have compromised the data of many celebrities including Bruce Springsteen,...

Minimizing Your Cyber Risk: Third Certainty #17

In the seventeenth installment of Third Certainty, Adam Levin explains how some services and help keep companies and their employees safe from cyber fails.
Password manager

Do Password Managers Make You More or Less Secure?

It’s World Password Day, and much like every other day of the year, the state of password security is terrible.  Despite repeated warnings from security...
Adult site leaks 7 TB of data

Indecent Exposure: 7TB of Adult Streaming User Data Unsecured on Server

Users on an adult streaming platform may have experienced the wrong kind of exposure when over seven terabytes of data was found on an...
Pharma exec credential breach

68% of Pharma Executives Have Had Credentials Breached Online

The online credentials for 68% of pharmaceutical executives analyzed for a study have been compromised recently. The study, conducted by cybersecurity firm Blackcloak, found that...
ghost

Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and...
Covid-19 scams

Cybercriminals Are Exploiting the Covid-19 Pandemic

Cybercriminals are actively targeting Covid-19 hotspots with malware and phishing campaigns, according to a new report from Bitdefender. The report, “Coronavirus-themed Threat Reports Haven’t Flattened...
e-skimming

What E-Commerce Sites Can Learn from the Covid-19 Pandemic

For the last few years, cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm on something called e-skimming. In this kind of attack, hackers intercept payment...
Zoom Webex

Rethinking Zoom? How WebEx, Teams, and Google Meet and Duo Compare...

If you're among the many looking for a new video conferencing tool after adding "zoombombing" to your vocabulary, you're in luck. While a one-size-fits-all solution...

New Program Allows Realtime Deepfakes on Zoom, Skype

A newly released program allows users to create real-time deepfakes on video conferencing platforms including Zoom, and Skype. Avatarify is an open-source program that can...
CNBC - stimulus checks scams

Adam Levin Warns of Stimulus Check Scams on CNBC

Adam Levin was featured on CNBC where he warned of the new wave of scams targeting recipients of stimulus checks. “They’re looking to get sensitive...
What the Hack

Zoom Zero-Day Exploits Up For Sale on the Dark Web

Two critical zero-day exploits for the Zoom video conferencing platform just hit the market. The alleged exploits take advantage of vulnerabilities in Zoom’s Windows and...
Email quarantine

Your Email Needs to Shelter in Place, Too

The Covid-19 pandemic created an opportunity for hackers to target the newly remote workforce. Hospitals have been targeted by ransomware (despite initial assurances to...
E-Skimming

WooCommerce Sites Targeted by E-Skimming Attacks

Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Sucuri have uncovered a new set of e-skimming attacks targeting websites using the WordPress WooCommerce e-commerce plugin. E-skimming attacks typically...

How to Pick the Right Cybersecurity Vendor for Your Business

Businesses across the country have had to adjust to their employees working from home. For many it was a last-minute scramble to adjust to what has become...

Beware Voice Deepfakes: Third Certainty #16

In the latest episode of Third Certainty, Adam Levin explains the danger of voice deepfakes.
Marriott Breach

How Marriott Customers Can Protect Themselves From The Latest Breach

Marriott International announced a data breach that may have exposed the information of 5.2 million guests. Among the information potentially compromised are names, birthdates,...
Remote work security

Worried About Your Remote Team’s Cybersecurity? Do These 5 Things Right...

The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a mass exodus from offices around the world with millions of people now working from home. Hackers are already...
Zoombomb

How to Protect Against Zoombombing

Video conferencing platform Zoom has been crowded with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and the adoption of social distancing measures. Criminal cyber activity has...
homograph

Homographic Hacking: What It Is and How It Works

If you are moving fast as we tend to do during the workday, the following four web addresses may not look so different from...