September 2017

Even celebrity status can’t protect your data At the beginning of September, a news story broke that Selena Gomez had her Instagram hacked. Why does the Instagram of a celebrity matter this time? Because this hack goes much further. Instagram...

Three Steps To Protect Yourself and Your Company Earlier this month we learned that criminals gained access to certain files in Equifax's system from mid-May to July by exploiting a weak point in website software. The big lesson here: Prepare...

Whitepaper: Top 5 Patch Mistakes With countless approaches to patch management, there are many misconceptions about the best strategy. After a year of global cyberattacks such as WannaCry and Petya, companies need to take every step against critical vulnerabilities and...

Patch Now: Microsoft Fixes Zero-Day Flaw Two major security flaws were addressed in the latest Patch Tuesday update. The first was a zero-day vulnerability that is currently being used in attacks against Russian-speaking users. The second is a response to...

Money Well Spent Every dollar of fraud to merchants and firms in the retail and financial services sector is estimated to cost $2.66 on average, said a new fraud report. The LexisNexis Fraud Multiplier estimates the total amount of loss a business...

Hackers Access Personal Data of 143 Million Consumers The credit reporting agency Equifax revealed that hackers gained access to company data that potentially compromised sensitive information for 143 million American consumers, including Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers. Criminals...

Protect Your Pacemaker Even pacemakers are vulnerable without updates. On August 29th, the FDA issued an alert regarding Abbott pacemakers. Formerly known as St. Jude Medical, the Abbott pacemakers below have vulnerabilities in their software. Almost half a million people...

Is BitPaymer going to be bigger than WannaCry? On August 25th, a handful of Scottish hospitals was infected with the BitPaymer ransomware. This group of hospitals, responsible for more than 654,000 residents, was also hit during the WannaCry ransomware event...