Who is safeguarding your customers’ sensitive data?
Who is safeguarding your customers’ sensitive data? I’ve been reading with wonder, as I’m sure many of you have, about the seemingly endless parade of breaches for companies small & large. Increasingly, it isn’t the company reporting the breach that is the cause of the issue; rather it (more…)
Amy Winehouse’s Death Used in Online Attacks
Here we have another good example of why good security awareness training is so important – Amy Winehouse. Cybercriminals are very quick to take advantage of the latest news to increase the chances of success in their phishing attacks. Does your security awareness training adequately cover this? Do your users understand not to click on those links in unsolicited emails, Facebook pages, etc.?
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BET24 warns over data breach – 19 months later
As reported by The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/26/bet24_security_breach/), online gambling site BET24.com notified customers on Monday of data breach that occured in December, 2009. (more…)
You are… The Weakest Link!
I’ve written about this before, but I think it bears repeating now and then. Security awareness of an organization’s employees is as important as ever and is often the weakest link in an organization’s information security posture. (more…)
Summary of Recent Data Breaches
So many recent data breaches – its becoming hard to keep up. Here’s a quick summary of some data breaches. There are many more where this came from, and the full list of known breaches can be found at these sites: (more…)
Fun with Social Engineering
I recently wrote about Security Awareness Training, and mentioned that a well-trained staff and general employee population can be a good deterrent against Social Engineering practitioners. Social Engineering is a service offering of Halock Security Labs, and it’s probably one of (more…)
Incident Response & First Responders
Incident Response & First Responders. Being in information security sales, we’ve all taken the call from a client who’s been breached. They’re usually in a bit of panic, high pitched voice, short, staccato sentences. Best thing to do is calm them down, and advise them (more…)
