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The Biggest Threat to your Network Security: Email Communications

When it comes to protecting your businesses infrastructure, it is safe to assume that you have some form of cyber protection activated. But email communications represent the ...

63% of Data Breaches Result From Weak or Stolen Passwords

By: Kevin Lancaster on 06/16/17 13:38

In its recent 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Enterprise confirmed many industry trends that we see at ID Agent every day. The most glaring blind spot for ...

OneLogin - When Password Storing Goes Wrong

By: Kevin Lancaster on 06/15/17 14:24

OneLogin, a company that provides single sign-on capabilities to safely store passwords of over 23 million users including 2,000 businesses, has suffered a compromise that ...

The Ransomware Assault on Healthcare

By: Kevin Lancaster on 06/12/17 13:27

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 ...

Why Managed Service Providers Must Monitor for Compromised Credentials

By: Kevin Lancaster on 06/08/17 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 ...

Cyber Criminals, College Credentials, and the Dark Web

By: Kevin Lancaster on 06/05/17 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 ...

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

By: Kevin Lancaster on 06/01/17 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 05/29/17 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 ...

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

By: Kevin Lancaster on 05/25/17 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 05/22/17 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 ...

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