96 Results from 2016, /security
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1 billion+ users. 330 million of which use the app for business purposes and happily share the latest HR files, sales pipelines and company intelligence over the messaging app. Lately, IT Managers and Company Directors were in disarray as to how to address the increasing risk of data leaks, security hazards and breaches of compliance rules and ...
13 April 2016 /security
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
The Identity Protection PIN tool on the IRS.gov site has been temporarily suspended—because it was recently hacked into. The tool provides retrieval of forgotten or lost IP PINs to users who want an extra layer of protection against identity theft. But some users who received the IP PINs recently via the online tool learned that a thief had used th...
11 April 2016 /security
On Tuesday 5th April, I was going through spam on my private email account checking for any emails that may have been accidentally flagged as spam. I have set up email forwarding from a website that I own and whenever I put my details into a web form, I normally use an alias for that website that forwards emails to my prvate email address. This he...
07 April 2016 /security
We’re told to change our passwords often to minimize getting hacked. Now we’re told this is a bad thing. But not for any inherent techy reason. It’s because frequent password changing makes many people lower their guard when it comes to creating new passwords. They get lax and end up with passwords like Bear1, Crazy4uand GetHigh1978. Or, they often...
06 April 2016 /security
Cyber-crime is reportedly one of the fastest growing crimes out there, and the financial services sector is a natural target for exploitation. HSBC is one of the most recent examples of this; the banking giant experienced multiple breaches at the start of this year. These threats are predicted to become commonplace as denial of service (DDoS) att...
06 April 2016 /security /regulation
George Osborne hopes to make London a fintech leader, but the Brexit threatens the industry’s survival. Why would Britain champion this booming industry only to destroy it? Modern politics is all about simple opposites and simple solutions: left vs right, save vs spend, and now, in vs out. The black and white nature of politics, at its worst, is st...
04 April 2016 /security /inclusion
Everyone has received very obvious “phishing” e-mails: Messages in your in-box that have outrageous subject lines like “Your Account Will Be Suspended,” or, “You Won!” While some phishing attacks are obvious, others look harmless, such as those in a person’s workplace in-box, seemingly from their company’s higher-ups. Researchers point out that an ...
22 March 2016 /security
Disasters happen every day. Crashing hard drives, failing storage devices and even burglaries could have a significant negative impact on your business, especially if that data is lost forever. You can avoid these problems by backing up your data. Backing up means keeping copies of your important business data in several places and on multiple devi...
21 March 2016 /security
13.1 million people were stricken by identity theft last year in America, reports a study by Javelin Strategy & Research which reveals: Many people who don’t trust their banks are unwittingly doing things that make crime easier for crooks. This includes not using the bank’s protection services such as e-mail alerts. Oddly, there are more victi...
14 March 2016 /security
Do you shop at Amazon.com? Are you aware they have a back door through which hackers can slip in? Let’s look at Eric’s experience with hackers and Amazon, as he recounts at medium.com/@espringe. He received an e-mail from Amazon and contacted them to see what it was about. Amazon informed him that he had had a text-chat and sent him the transcript—...
03 March 2016 /security
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