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June 28, 2018

The Week in Breach 06/18 – 06/22

Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: It’s no surprise that this week has been busy for cyber-attacks on the web, targeting big events such as the World Cup but also continuing to pursue small-and medium-sized businesses across the globe. – Google is still leaking! – Another Dark Web marketplace down in a big win for French authorities. – Do androids dream of electric… rats? A new malware for Android! – Going phishing at the World Cup. In other news…

June 27, 2018

The Week In Breach 6/11/18 – 6/17/18

Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach It should serve as no surprise, two of the breaches profiled this week occurred as the result of compromised email address and passwords. The particular events highlight the need to make password hygiene and compromised credential monitoring front and center.

June 12, 2018

The Week in Breach: 6/04/2018 – 6/10/2018

Breach news to share with your customers! This week shows no shortage of targeted attacks designed to extract large datasets from a broad range of consumer sites. Travel, finance and entertainment sites were targeted, impacting more than 100,000,000 unsuspecting victims. If anything, this week clearly demonstrates why individuals need to proactively monitor for their compromised data with tools like ID Agent’s SpotLight ID – Personal Identity & Credit Monitoring Solutions. The events of this week also clearly demonstrate why businesses must monitor for compromised credentials that can be used to exploit internal systems and to compromise or takeover customer accounts.

June 06, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/28/18 – 5/03/18

Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: – Finance sector attacks ramping up – BackSwap JavaScript injections effectively circumventing detection – Honda has leaky buckets too

May 30, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/21/18 – 5/27/18

Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: – You’d better reboot your router… NOW! – Nation states injecting malicious apps into play stores to steal your stuff. – Malware infects healthcare system impacting 500,000 Marylanders. – Time from detection to acknowledgment and response getting slower and slower and slower.

May 23, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/14/18 – 5/20/18

The Week in Breach: 5/14/18 – 5/20/18 Breach news to share with your customers! Highlight’s from The Week in Breach: Ransomware still plaguing state and local agencies Accidental data disclosures on the rise AWS implementation flaws create security flaws compromised

May 17, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/7/18 – 5/14/18

Breach Updates and News Small Business can use! Two-factor Authentication Hackable? Our friends at KnowBe4 show 2 Factor may not be enough in some cases. Student of The Month in California! Phish Teacher, Change Grades, Get Felony! You can’t make this stuff up!

May 09, 2018

The Week in Breach: 4/30/18 – 5/6/18

Breach Updates and News Small Business can use! This past week proved to be the quietest week of the year when it comes to the volume of confirmed breaches. I certainly don’t expect this to be the case next week. Our team is seeing an uptick in chatter across dark web forums indicating confirmed exploits impacting several organizations in the financial, healthcare and legal sectors. I do have to give credit to Twitter’s CTO for going public with the fact that they accidentally stored passwords in clear text. See links to Twitter articles below.

May 02, 2018

The Week in Breach 4/23 – 4/30

Breach Updates and News Small Business Can Use! Not Worried About that Public Data Breach? You Should be! Credential Stuffing Bots are on the rise and working overtime to exploit you!

April 26, 2018

A New Wave of Brute Force Attacks: Here’s What You Should Know

Last month, the United States Department of Justice indicted nine Iranian hackers for a wave of brute force attacks. These attacks resulted in the digital theft of more than 31 terabytes in information worth $3 billion in intellectual property.

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