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Was Chipolte’s Breach Due To Willful Negligence and Elementary Security?

Chipolte seems to be challenged to catch a break.  After the E.coli outbreak in 2015 and shareholder lawsuits, Chipolte tried to make a comeback.  Last month the announced that they had been hacked and credit cards compromised.  Chipolte hasn’t said which restaurants were affected or how many cards were compromised, but they have announced the […]

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Massive Docusign Phishing Attack After Breach

Docusign is one of the major eSigning providers in the country.  eSigning allows customers to electronically sign documents instead of having to go somewhere to place a pen on paper and sign those documents with ink.  As a result of this convenience, eSigning is extremely popular.  It is used in every industry vertical where document […]

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Why Those “Secret” Questions are Not a Very Good Security Measure

You have likely been subjected to websites that use so called “out of wallet” questions to validate that you are who you say you are.  Sometimes those questions are used to allow you to reset your password and other times those questions are used when you set up your account in the first place. Examples […]

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Why Cyber Insurance is Important to Small Businesses

While the breaches at Target, the IRS, Chipolte and others made the news during 2017, small business breaches were up over 40% between 2015 and 2016 and doesn’t show any signs of letting up. Given that, here are some reasons why small businesses should have cyber risk insurance. #1 – Small businesses do not have […]

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