Some say that the insider threat is the most serious threat to a business and without debating whether one threat is worse than another, here is a great example of the insider threat and how not to deal with it. First, the story. Last month, three executives of the Denver Post resigned and formed an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry, but I am not going to be very sympathetic to this law firm. Here is the story. A Rhode Island law firm, Moses Afonso Ryan, was hit with a ransomware attack. Apparently, the company did not have a plan for dealing with a ransomware attack. In general, if you have good backups and have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the challenges to companies doing business online is that your customers may be scattered all over the country. While this is obviously good for business, it also means that you need to comply with state data breach laws for all states where you have customers because the law’s applicability is based on where […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to NBC, the FBI projected ransomware payments to hit a billion dollars in 2016 (Note that stats seem to be hard to find, so I don’t know if the FBI thinks that number was reached). In 2015, they said the number was $24 million. That is a bit of a growth curve – 41x […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have said, in the past, how come the government doesn’t warn companies when they have intel that the companies are targets of hackers? Well, we did get one data point on that after the DNC hack last year, but now we have more data points. As a reminder about what happened last year, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Netflix might be the new Sony. As a result of the Sony breach, 5 full length movies were released on pirate movie web sites. Among the movies released were Annie and Fury, along with three others. Now Netflix is in the hackers’ radar. In addition to the entire new season of Orange is the New […]
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