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How IT Freelancers Can Avoid Tax-Season Nightmares
This is a guest post written by Tristan Zier, a former CPA and founder of Zen99, a website designed to help independent contractors manage their tax obligations throughout the year to avoid last-minute...
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FBI Reports More Data Breaches from Disgruntled Employees
Last week, the FBI issued a cyber security warning, stating there’s been an increase in data breaches caused by disgruntled employees on or around the time they left their employer. Employees were...
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Recommend IT Services to Clients? Know the Risks
It may seem unfathomable, but it's true: you can be sued when software, SaaS, cloud storage, or technology made by another company is hacked. Why are you liable for another company's products? It's...
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Shellshock Sure Understands the Halloween Spirit
The Shellshock vulnerability – a bug that exposes Unix-based computers (including Mac OS X) to remote code-injection attacks – burst onto the scene just in time for Halloween. It's currently spooking...
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In Data Security, Compliance Isn't Enough
The Telegraph reports a paradigm shift taking place among IT industry leaders: more data security consultants are realizing that merely complying with security regulations isn't enough to protect...
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Four States Update Data Breach Notification Laws
According to JD Supra, four states have changed their data breach notification laws in the wake of 2014's onslaught of data breaches. Here's what IT consultants need to know about new state...
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Snapchat Leak Offers Liability Lessons for App Developers
The Washington Post reports that 13GB of "snaps" (Snapchat photos) have been leaked online on the hacker forum 4chan. A flaw in a third-party app that lets users save the otherwise temporary messages...
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When Software Design is a Matter of Life and Death
Believe it or not, in the middle of all the panic over the first Ebola cases in the U.S., there was actually a question of IT liability. According to Bloomberg News, the Dallas-area hospital's software...
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Loss, Theft of Devices Still Among the Most Common Data Breaches
The Dallas Morning News details a recent data breach in which a number of laptops with patient records were stolen from the back of city ambulances between 2011 and 2014. Do stolen computers count as...
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The Free Security Tool Your Clients Probably Aren't Using
As IT security blogger Brian Krebs reports, last week saw a wave of critical security updates to Microsoft Windows, Java, and two Adobe programs.Your clients might not realize that by delaying an...
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Phishing by the Dock of eBay
CIO Today reports eBay was hacked…again. Over the summer, nearly 145 million passwords were exposed, but this time hackers used a different approach to harvest data.Because eBay allows JavaScript and...
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Introducing TIMI, the TechInsurance Market Index
Insuring small IT businesses and tech contractors is our specialty at TechInsurance, but we're always looking to better understand our clients and the risks they face. That's why we're introducing the...
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Give This to Your Clients, Cut Your Cyber Exposure
One of the biggest challenges an IT consultant faces is getting clients to adopt basic data security measures that will protect their company from data breaches, accidental data leaks, and other data...
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This Is What We Mean by "Reputational Damage"
Last week, a group of retailers known as MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange) made news when two members – CVS and Rite Aid – ditched their plan to use Apple Pay in favor of MCX's own mobile payment...
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The Least Fun Way to Spend that Extra $9,000
As an IT professional, you've undoubtedly worked with clients who won't commit an adequate amount of resources to data security. Many small-business owners simply don't think it's worth the extra money...
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Secure Message Scorecard: How Do Your Favorite Apps Measure Up?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reviewing messaging apps and scoring them for security. You can see the results on a new Secure Messaging Scorecard posted on the group's website.The first...
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Why the 31% of Businesses without Cyber Insurance Should Scare You
Insurance Journal reports on a study that shows 60 percent of businesses think cyber risks are very high for them, but 31 percent still have no Cyber Liability Insurance whatsoever.You might be...
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Getting Government Contracts: What Not to Do
Advisen reports that there's been a massive data breach affecting tens of thousands of government employees. When US Investigation Services – a longtime government contractor specializing in background...
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19-Year-Old Windows Bug and WinShock Are a Lesson in IT Liability
Last week, Microsoft issued its usual monthly patches, but there were two interesting vulnerabilities making data security news. Let's look at each bug and see the ripple effects they can have for an...
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Why You Should Care that the Average DDoS Attack Costs $500,000
Incapsula conducted a survey of IT professionals and found the average distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack cost their clients $500,000. The survey focused on mid- and large-size clients (250 –...
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