Wendy's Breach May be Bigger than Either Target or Home Depot
It's estimated that well over 1.5 million customers are served each day at Wendy's. If you were one of those recently, you may...
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Snapchat and Seagate Employees Fall for W-2 Phishing Scam
It's easy to think that only small companies get duped into giving out information to hackers. However, it just isn't true...
Amex Discloses Breach of 3rd Party Provider in Dec 2013
American Express mentioned there might have been a breach of its cardholders' information starting in December of 2013. Very few...
Watch out for Two New Facebook Scams
Nearly everyone who has used a computer is on some kind of social media. It could be for keeping in touch with friends and...
Research Apps Before Installing, Some Spread Malware
In October of 2014 a flashlight app for smartphones made the news. The story went that an app that you can download to your...
Healthcare Related Breaches May Raise Your Blood Pressure
Last year, over 110 million people in the U.S. were victims of data breaches of healthcare organizations alone, according to the...
Social Media Security Issues
Generally speaking there are two ways in which hackers and cybercriminals use social engineering to exploit social networks. 1...
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center Pays for Poor Cyber Security Practices
Recently the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid $17,000 in Bitcoin currency to hackers. You may be asking, "Why?" It...
Xbot Ransomware Also Steals Online Banking Credentials
Yep. They are still making new types of malware to steal banking login credentials. This time, one being called Xbot is targeting...
FBI Data Shows 270% Increase in BEC Scams
It is getting more and more critical to educate employees on the various types of cybercrime and there is a good reason for it...
Data of 40k Employees Stolen from Cox Communications
Employees of any company don't deserve to have their information stolen. Unfortunately, 40,000 Cox Communications (Cox) employees...
The Number of IRS Breach Victims has Doubled
Remember the "get transcript" data incident with the IRS last year? At that time, thieves breached the inadequate security of the...