Dark Web ID Tracks and Identifies DHS and FBI “Data Dumps” Immediately After Release
Last weekend, more than 9,300 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees’ personal information was leaked online, all stemming from an apparent data breach to the DHS networks. Not only were those identities exposed, but the Twitter user that publicized the information immediately followed suit by exposing an additional 22,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees’ information. …
Read MoreFive Steps to Protect Your C-Suite from Corporate Identity Theft
Since 2003, the FBI has tracked more than $740 million dollars lost to business email compromise (BEC) fraud in the United States. Who’s the main target? None other than the C-Suite. Led by organized online criminal groups, BEC is one of the fastest growing types of financial fraud. Company executives are more easily compromised than you may …
Read MoreThree Types of Business E-Mail Compromise Scams You Need to Recognize
The internet has changed the way businesses operate around the world. Having access to a tool of this caliber is essential to the way corporations function today, but it also has its downfalls. In this case, we’re referring to the incredibly dangerous threat most business owners are either unaware of or hardly ever think about …
Read MoreWhy Employee Data May Pose Biggest Cyber Risk
Cyber risk is no longer a potential threat to put on the back burner for later review. The reality is that cyber risk is a threat right now. Many organizations are taking precautions to protect themselves and their people. However, despite the plethora of major companies and brands experiencing the repercussions of not instilling pre-breach precautions, …
Read MoreAre You Doing Enough to Protect Your Customers’ Data?
Protecting sensitive customer data on your networks isn’t just the right thing to do – it may now be a legally sanctioned practice. Recently the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was granted broad authority to penalize companies that had inadequate cybersecurity practices in place to protect their customers’ information from data breaches. In the past, the …
Read MorePhishing Scam Targets Human Resources Professionals
The IRS recently issued an alert, warning Human Resources or Payroll professionals to be on the lookout for an email scheme designed to steal employee data from W-2 forms. The scam has already claimed some high profile victims, such as Snapchat, and is especially threatening as employees are in the midst of tax season. What is Email Phishing? …
Read MoreCan Your Employees’ Personal Identity Theft Affect Your Organization?
Identity theft continues to grow at an alarming rate. Statistics show that 3% of the U.S. population experienced credit card fraud at least once in 2014. Not to mention that, “an estimated 17.6 million persons were victims of one or more incidents of identity theft,” in the same year, as reported by the U.S. Department of Justice. …
Read More7 Benefits to Providing Identity Theft Protection to Your Employees
Among all of the security features a company needs in order to truly protect itself, it’s easy to forget about the most important aspect of an organization that needs to stay out of harm’s way – its people. Employees are becoming increasingly more vulnerable to cyber threats, just as your company is as a whole. …
Read MoreThe Anatomy of an Email Data Breach
Verizon’s recent announcement of a data breach in their Enterprise Solutions unit is just the most recent of a staggeringly high number of organizational data breaches in the U.S. What’s particularly alarming about this breach is that the Verizon unit breached is “a B2B unit of the telecommunications giant that gets called in to help Fortune 500s respond …
Read More4 Steps You Can Take to Safeguard Protected Health Information
The digitization of medical care has become a double-edged sword. Healthcare providers like Kaiser Permanente have used medical records to improve the health of their members. In 2015, the National Committee for Quality Assurance found that Kaiser Permanente ranked first in 21 different healthcare quality measures, more than any other health plan in the country. Kaiser’s quality …
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