by Shawn | Jan 17, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
Gas stations will become liable for card-skimming at their pay-at-the-pump mechanisms starting in October. Gas stations are gearing up for a major change in credit-card fraud liability in October, when they will find themselves on the hook for card-skimming attacks at...
by Shawn | Jan 15, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
It has to be said, that it’s not going to get easier to handle IT security. We are living in the world of exploding possibilities and the IT environment is becoming increasingly complex. In parallel, the IT security landscape is also growing. IT security departments...
by Shawn | Jan 13, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access. According to Comparitech, Bob Diachenko, security researcher, uncovered the Elasticsearch cluster and believes the trove of data is...
by Shawn | Jan 10, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
The Information Security Forum (ISF), a resource for executives and board members on cyber security and risk management, has announced the organization’s outlook for the top global security threats that businesses will face in 2020. Key threats for the coming year...
by Shawn | Jan 8, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, News, Security, Technology News
The wheels of 2020’s biggest cyber security threats have already been set in motion. Mobile, the cloud and artificial intelligence, to name a few, are trends that will continue to be exploited by criminals. Couple that with the rapid growth of software development and...
by Shawn | Jan 6, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, News, Security, Technology News
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) have emerged to be legitimate concerns for all organizations. APTs are threat actors that breach networks and infrastructures and stealthily lurk within them over extended spans of time. They typically perform complex hacks that...
by Shawn | Dec 30, 2019 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Network Security, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
Mobile computing, cloud applications and tele-work have all combined to erode the traditional corporate security perimeter — and, in doing so, have largely transferred the attack surface to end-user devices. Each endpoint is now its own perimeter in today’s Zero Trust...
by Shawn | Dec 23, 2019 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
As part of its active efforts to protect billions of online users, Google identified and warned over 12,000 of its users who were targeted by a government-backed hacking attempt in the third quarter of this year. According to a report published by Google’s...
by Shawn | Dec 16, 2019 | Cybersecurity, News, Security, Technology News
The United States government has opened a national security review of a Chinese company’s acquisition of the American company that became TikTok, the hugely popular short-form video app, according to people briefed on the inquiry. The Committee on Foreign Investment...
by Shawn | Dec 9, 2019 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
Two third-party software development kits integrated by over hundreds of thousands of Android apps have been caught holding unauthorized access to users’ data associated with their connected social media accounts. In a blog post, Twitter revealed that an SDK...
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