Internet Threats Blog
We’ve blogged about Twitter mishaps and social media fails before, and we have warned companies to implement social media policies for employees. According to a survey done by the Society of Human Resource Management, almost 40% of companies have a social media policy in place; out of those, a third has taken disciplinary action against an employee in the past year. The latest victim of a … [Read more...]
For any company that does business online, hearing that you’ve been involved in a data breach is quite possibly the worst news to hear. Last month it was the online transaction processing company Global Payments, who joined the likes of Epsilon and Sony in the list of high profile data breaches in recent memory. These breaches not only affect the existing customer base but can also do … [Read more...]
Most businesses today understand the need of having their own website, but most of those businesses don’t monitor their websites and even more don’t know how to react when their sites have been compromised. A study conducted which surveyed over 600 website owners and administrators whose sites had been compromised showed that 63 percent of website owners didn’t know how they were … [Read more...]
Banning employees from Facebook, Twitter and other sites shows a 30% increase in computer security breaches TELUS and the Rotman School of Management have published their third annual IT security study. This time, the study revealed an increase in the number of security breaches in both government entities and companies in the private sector; with government entities experiencing twice the number … [Read more...]
Need a job? The globally economy is in shambles with well-paying jobs going the way of the desktop. Young and educated now means young and unemployed. Alas, even with the economic downturn, hack and wack global security firms, national security agencies and even organized crime are on a hiring binge to add staff to their payroll: that is Hackers. Their rationale is quite simple -- find out about … [Read more...]
Clients of the online marketing firm, Epsilon, have been in full damage control mode after the company announced on the 1st of April, and this is no joke, that on the previous day they had detected a significant data breach. According to Epsilon the compromised data consisted of customer names along with their e-mail addresses but that social security numbers and banking information were … [Read more...]
