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The Ransomware Assault on Healthcare

Hospital networks can unfortunately become a goldmine for attackers that use ransomware worms as their weapon. If deployed, lives may be endangered, hospitals usually must pay the ...

Why Managed Service Providers Must Monitor for Compromised Credentials

By: Kevin Lancaster on 6/8/17 12:28

If your customers are like most organizations, 75% of their employees recycle or use a variation of the same password across most of the systems and websites they access – both on ...

Cyber Criminals, College Credentials, and the Dark Web

By: Kevin Lancaster on 6/5/17 8:29

Today, Digital Citizens Alliance published a report that focuses on how exposed Universities and Colleges' populations are on the dark web. Specifically, they looked at the levels ...

How to Detect if Your Organization's Email Credentials Have Been Stolen & How to Prevent Phishing.

By: Kevin Lancaster on 6/1/17 6:59

Stolen email credentials are an often exploited vulnerability for government and corporate networks. In fact, Verizon announced in a recent study that 91% of phishing attacks ...

IRS Announces Pre-Breach Identity Protection Services Are Non-Taxable

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/29/17 13:57

On December 30th, 2015, the IRS officially announced that employers are not required to include the value of pre-breach identity protection services in employee gross income. This ...

Dark Web ID Tracks and Identifies DHS and FBI “Data Dumps” Immediately After Release

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/25/17 13:56

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 ...

Five Steps to Protect Your C-Suite from Corporate Identity Theft

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/22/17 13:55

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 ...

Three Types of Business E-Mail Compromise Scams You Need to Recognize

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/18/17 13:54

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 ...

Why Employee Data May Pose Biggest Cyber Risk

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/15/17 13:54

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 ...

Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Customers’ Data?

By: Kevin Lancaster on 5/11/17 13:52

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) ...

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