Data Breach

30 Jun What is Ransomware and What Should You Know?

Posted at 11:30h in Business, Cryptocurrency, Data Breach, New Technology, Payments Security, PCI Compliance, The Cloud, Tips and Tricks by Eric

Ransomware is a type of malware from cryptovirology – the study of using cryptography to design malicious software, that threatens to lock out a victim's access to or publish their personal data unless a ransom is paid. Essentially, ransomware uses encryption to hold a user or...

27 May What is Multi-Factor Authentication?

Posted at 12:03h in Business, Data Breach, New Technology, Payments Security, The Cloud, Tips and Tricks by Eric

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method where a user is given access to an application or website after providing two or more verification factors. In addition to using a username and password to gain access to your apps, MFA requires the user successfully present...

31 Mar Microsoft warns of multiple threats while cleaning up infected Exchange servers

Posted at 22:06h in Business, Data Breach, News by Eric

Four zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered by Microsoft on its Exchange Server product early January and were exploited by the Chinese threat group named “Hafnium”. A zero-day vulnerability is a security flaw that is known to the vendor but does not have a patch or update to...

29 Jul 7.5 Million Users Exposed By Dave Banking Security Breach

Posted at 11:46h in Banks & Fees, Business, Credit Cards, Data Breach, New Technology, Payments Security by Eric

Dave, the personal finance app and challenger bank, announced a security breach this Saturday. Dave is a unicorn tech company leading as a US challenger bank that offers free overdraft cash, budgeting, credit building and more. Approximately 7.5 million Dave users had their information exposed on a...

12 Jun New Pandemic Scams On The Rise

Posted at 14:32h in Banks & Fees, Data Breach, New Technology, News, Payments Security, Tips and Tricks by Eric

The WHO was one of the first major organizations to warn about the increase of cyberattacks and online scams happening over the past few months. In late April WHO reported a fivefold increase in cyber attacks stating that some 450 active WHO email addresses and...

30 Sep Three common cyber security threats and what to do about them

Posted at 22:24h in Business, Data Breach, Payments Security, PCI Compliance, Tips and Tricks by Eric

Technology has changed significantly over the years making everyone's lives easier. Daily life is now more convenient and in many ways more enjoyable. Never before has communication been so simple. Travel has also improved, making it easier to discover new places, and more difficult to get...

31 Jul What Businesses And Consumers Should Know About The Capital One Breach

Posted at 22:27h in Banks & Fees, Credit Cards, Data Breach, News by Eric

Yesterday, a week after Equifax reached a whopping $650 million dollar settlement from their 2017 breach, Capital One disclosed in a press release that it suffered a massive data breach exposing the personal information of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Again, another huge...