by Chuck Rutenberg | Nov 8, 2018 | Cyber Threats
Human error. It’s one of the things that make life…interesting. Just ask the residents of Hawaii, who were alerted to the imminent arrival of nuclear missiles from North Korea. Thankfully, it was a false alarm, caused when someone who thought he was working in a test...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Nov 6, 2018 | Cyber Threats
Among the myriad misconceptions many small-business owners harbor regarding data security are these: “We have nothing that cybercriminals would want, so we’re safe.” “The only thing a cybercriminal would want to do is deface my website.” Both of these ideas are dead...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Oct 25, 2018 | Safeguarding Customer Data
By some estimates, consumers are more concerned about identity theft than the theft of their cars, wallets, purses, or cell phones. And with good reason: If your identity is stolen and the perpetrators open credit accounts in your name, it can take years to straighten...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Oct 23, 2018 | Cyber Threats
Spam. Even after all these years, no one has come up with a truly effective way to deal with it. There are filtering solutions, whitelisting, blacklisting, and other approaches, but somehow the spammers still find a way to get their messages across. And there seems to...
by Chuck Rutenberg | Oct 12, 2018 | Healthcare IT
Just a few months ago, provider UnityPoint Health suffered a phishing-related data breach that compromised the protected data of up to 1.4 million patients. The breach occurred between March 14th and April 3rd of 2018, when a high-level executive’s email account was...
