A friend sent me this story about how nearly 17,000 patient records were stolen from a laptop that was taken from a consultant’s car. Here’s how you can protect the sensitive data on your computer or laptop (even if it’s lost or stolen) with just the system you’re using right now. If I took your [...]
Earlier this month, the U.S. Drone Fleet was hit by a computer malware that appeared to be logging keystrokes sent to the drones. What’s interesting about the report is that the malware has resisted several attempts by the military to cleanse the infection. In other words, as soon as they clean off one instance of the malware, [...]
Last week email marketing firm Epsilon had their systems breached according to several sources, such as CNN. Customer email lists of major companies like TD Ameritrade, Citi, AT&T, 1800Flowers, and more were reportedly stolen as part of that breach. What this means for you is that instead of receiving random phishing emails from companies that [...]
This came across my desk this morning http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/natalie-portman-joins-list-of-compromised-celebs-20110322-1c4bt.html. It’s an article about how celebrities are getting their online accounts hacked, and the latest victim being Natalie Portman from the movie Black Swan. Celebrity or not, we all have online accounts (Facebook, email, bank, etc.) and data we wish to keep private and secure. Here are the top 3 [...]
This past November, an organization by the name of WikiLeaks released confidential data which documented correspondences the United States had with organizations worldwide. WikiLeaks allegedly got a hold of the data from United States Army soldier Private First Class Bradley Manning who made unauthorized copies of more than 250,000 United States confidential documents while stationed [...]
I read an article that was forwarded to me several weeks ago about an insurance executive who left one company for another and was attempting to “hide his work from a rival company” by throwing his laptop into a pond. The original article can be found here: http://fpn.advisen.com/fpnHomepagep.shtml?resource_id=124171879598845892#top Now you might not be an insurance executive [...]
