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Hotel Hippo Closure Would Be a Wakeup Call for Small Businesses (If Anyone...
SCMagazine reports that hotelhippo.com, a hotel reservation site, has shuttered after poor security led to a data breach.Though the company was small and only 24 customers were affected, the data...
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Lessons from Small IT Businesses Challenging Giants
NPR reports on how a tech non-profit that relies on volunteers is taking aim at one of Google's strongest markets: maps.In addition to helping you search for Thai food locations, Google actually sells...
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Schnucks Settlement Breaks Down Why Data Breaches Are So Expensive
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that more than a year and a half after its customers were first affected, the Midwestern grocery store Schnucks has settled its data breach lawsuit and will pay...
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Survey: Business Owners Want Technology Professionals
IT contractors and consultants are used to ebbs and flows in their businesses. You've had busy months and long-term contracts, but you also know what it's like to have downtime. That's part of the...
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Is It Time to Start Preaching Data Breach Management, Not Prevention?
Infosecurity issues a statement guaranteed to shock many business owners: data breaches are inevitable. With breaches bound to happen, data security experts are beginning to offer a new take on IT risk...
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Zombie Botnet Reminds Us that Cyber Crime Isn't Going Away
TechCrunch reports that cyber criminals have brought a botnet back to life, and like all zombies, this reanimated botnet is stronger than before!Botnets are massive collections of computers that...
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Identity Theft Costs $24.7 Billion Per Year, More Than All Property Crime...
If your clients are wary of investing in cyber security, all you need to do is give them one number: $24.7 billion. That's the amount of damages caused by cyber criminals each year. It's more than all...
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Hackety-Hack, Don't Click That (Even Savvy Bitcoin Bidders Are Getting Phished!)
The Wall Street Journal reports on a recent hack that shows spear phishing can hit anyone, even the most tech savvy Bitcoin companies. We'll look at how this attack stole tens of thousands from one...
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What the Apple-IBM Partnership Means for IT Professionals
ZDNet reports that IBM and Apple are partnering to develop mobile products for businesses, effectively combining Apple's iPad and iPhone infrastructure with IBM's device security and big data...
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Blackphone and Blackberry Duke It Out, But the Fight May Be Futile
A recent ZDNet article gives a blow-by-blow account of the fight between Blackberry and Blackphone over which company offers better mobile security. In a series of back-and-forth blog posts, the...
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Data Breach Research Shows Hackers Love Weak Java
Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, a post-mortem analysis of the previous year's cyber attacks, comes to a startling conclusion: 97 percent of zero-day attacks were Java based.A zero-day...
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Facebook at Work: A Data Security Issue?
Many employers block access to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites in order to keep their employees focused on the task at hand. But now IT professionals might have new reasons to limit...
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Mobile Security Update: 1 in 10 Android Apps Is a Virus
HackSurfer reports on the sorry state of cyber security on the Android platform where 1 in 10 apps contains malware. Yikes.You read that correctly: 10 percent of Android apps are malware. Over the last...
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IT Professional's Firing Would Have Been a Lawsuit for an IT Contractor
The Arizona Republic reports that Miguel Corzo, a community college IT employee who had been working in the district for 30 years, has been fired after his actions led to a data breach that has already...
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California Data Breach Law Raises as Many Questions as It Answers
IT consultants are subject to a variety of state laws. Your legal responsibilities change from state to state, and each new court ruling – such as the one that just occurred in California – can...
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Class Action Suit against eBay over Data Breach Seeks $5 Million in Damages
As Computer World reports, a newly filed lawsuit against eBay shows how data breaches are becoming big business for lawyers.The breach, which was discovered in February, has led to a $5 million class...
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DDoS Is the New Black
CNET reports that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have occurred at an unprecedented rate in the first half of 2014. This year has already had more than twice the amount that occurred in...
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When Deleting Malware Isn't Enough
Citadel, a particularly potent strain of banking malware, has been pestering IT security consultants for the last two years. ThreatPost reports that the latest strain has found a way to return to...
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Why Comcast-Style Customer Service Would Be Death to Small IT Contractors
If you have eight minutes to spare and you enjoy listening to grueling customer service phone calls, we strongly recommend this piece of undercover journalism by techie journalist Ryan Block.In the...
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Mega-Breach Is an Excellent Client Education Opportunity
When Target's data breach hit the front pages, many small-business owners saw it as evidence that hackers only go after big business. But the latest – and largest– data breach, which stole 1.2 billion...
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