by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Sep 17, 2019 | Cyber Security
LastPass recently identified and resolved a security bug that left customer credentials vulnerable to hackers. What happened? A security researcher from Google’s Project Zero discovered a flaw within LastPass’s browser extension for Chrome and Opera that could expose...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Aug 20, 2019 | Cyber Security, News
We previously wrote about targeted cyber-attacks on state and local governments in Florida. To read more click here. What Happened? Unfortunately, the rash of attacks has continued, with 23 Texas municipalities announcing they have been victimized as well. State...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Aug 20, 2019 | Best Practices, Cyber Security
A DNS is like a phone book for the internet. With a phone book, you can look up your friend’s name and find their phone number instead of having to remember the number yourself. Similarly, a DNS allows users to reference simple domain names like...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Aug 1, 2019 | Cyber Security
The textbook publishing giant Pearson has suffered a large-scale data breach impacting over 13,000 school and university accounts. The attack is said to have occurred in November 2018 when the personal information of hundreds of thousands of students were accessed by...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Jul 30, 2019 | Cyber Security, News, Proactive Monitoring
The FBI has detained a suspect they believe may be repsonsible for the Capital One data breach which impacted over 106m customer accounts and credit card applications between March and July 2019. The suspect, 33 year old Paige Adele Thompson, was found after posting a...
by Stephanie Rosenzweig | Jul 22, 2019 | Cyber Security, News
Equifax, a popular credit score agency, has agreed to pay $700m as part of a settlement for a data breach in 2017. The Federal Trade Commission believes Equifax failed to take proactive measures to secure its network. Consequently, 147 million people had their data...
