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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE (5/16) – Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is still reeling from the effects of WannaCry. Some say that 95% of the NHS computers are still running Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting over 3 years ago and for which there was no patch to block this malware. Many people attribute the fact that these […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Australian Red Cross recently apologized for losing control of 1.74 gigabytes of donor data. Included in the breach are name, address, email, phone number, date of birth and other information from blood donors. The data, 1.3 million records stored in 647 database tables is all the information the Australian Red Cross had on donors […]
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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