February 17, 2022
Leaky COVID-19 Portals Add Complexity to a Record Data Breach Landscape
After a record-breaking data breach total in 2021, insecure COVID-19 vaccine portals aren’t helping data security in 2022
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February 10, 2022
4 Pandemic Phishing Scams Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You
These 4 pandemic phishing scams could be coming soon to a mailbox near you but there’s an easy way to reduce the risk of trouble.
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January 21, 2022
Dark Web Data Fuels Credential Stuffing Trouble for 1.1 Million Accounts
Credential stuffing fueled by compromised credentials from the dark web is in the news. We’ve got tips to help you steer clear.
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January 13, 2022
Reduce Insider Threats by Building a Strong Security Culture
One of the best ways to reduce insider threats is by building a strong security culture. See why it’s so effective and how to foster one.
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April 12, 2018
Zappos Lawsuit Drives Home Need for Ongoing Credential Monitoring
Pay attention to this one! 6+ years later, Federal appeals court rules that data breach resulting in the theft of PII, even though the PII had not yet been used in any illegal activity, was harm enough to allow lawsuits to proceed against the company whose systems were compromised!
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November 20, 2017
Pa$$w0rds, the Dark Web, and a job I love.
Coming up with a strong password gives me a headache. About 3 years ago, I came up with the most (in my mind) brilliant password EV3R. You see, I used an 8 in the first part of the password to make the word Gr8 – great. Great! I could remember that, because it made me grin at my own cleverness every time I typed it. “You sneaky SOBs will never crack my code!”
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November 15, 2017
Identity Theft’s Reality
ID Agent is excited to offer this guest blog post from Megan Wells. Megan is a data journalist and content strategist at InvestmentZen who has written content on how data theft impacts Americans, technological interventions for personal and commercial finance and content for IBM and NASDAQ. With her examination of costs and the impact of Data Breaches, she shares how detrimental identity theft can be for MSP customers and their employees. Be sure to download her useful Infographic at the link below!
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June 08, 2017
Why Managed Service Providers Must Monitor for Compromised Credentials
If your customers are like most organizations, 75% of their employees recycle or use a variation of the same password across most of the systems and websites they access – both on and off their employer’s network. And this practice is becoming increasingly dangerous.
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May 25, 2017
Dark Web ID Tracks and Identifies DHS and FBI “Data Dumps” Immediately After Release
Last weekend, more than 9,300 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees’ personal information was leaked online, all stemming from an apparent data breach to the DHS networks. Not only were those identities exposed, but the Twitter user that publicized the information immediately followed suit by exposing an additional 22,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employees’ information.
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May 04, 2017
Can Your Employees’ Personal Identity Theft Affect Your Organization?
Identity theft continues to grow at an alarming rate. Statistics show that 3% of the U.S. population experienced credit card fraud at least once in 2014. Not to mention that, “an estimated 17.6 million persons were victims of one or more incidents of identity theft,” in the same year, as reported by theU.S. Department of Justice. This is up by a significant amount from the 16.6 million cases of identity theft in 2012.
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