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Company without cyberinsurance on the hook for $668k scam

Cyberinsurance is one of the most important protections your business can carry, full stop. No business can exist without insurance coverage of some kind, be it worker’s comp, commercial liability, etc. But one of the most important entrants to the insurance market is cyberinsurance. What was effectively nonexistent 15 years ago is now a mission-critical must have for basically every … Read More

Colonial Pipeline hack — what your business needs to know

About two weeks ago, one of the largest physical infrastructure cyberattacks perpetrated against the United States hit the Colonial Pipeline. That pipeline, responsible for nearly 50% of the East Coast’s fuel, had to be shut down for a significant period of time before the company capitulated and paid the ransom demand to regain access to their critical files. It was … Read More

What to know about new malware if your company runs on Mac

Mac lovers have touted multiple advantages over Windows-based machines for years. These claims haven’t always been substantiated by real data, sure… but folks love Apple computers and have for a while now. One of the advantages claimed for years and years is that Macs are less vulnerable to hacking, ransomware, malware, etc. While that may have been true a decade … Read More

Flipboard suffers data breach, responds expertly

Data breaches, sad as it is to say, are a part of corporate life now. Despite the best laid intentions (and expertly designed security systems) no system is truly hack proof. As long as humans have logins, there will be vulnerabilities in sensitive systems. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do everything in your power to prevent them, obviously, but it … Read More

Executive phishing — the newest security threat sweeping the nation

In any enterprise, keeping your team abreast of the newest and most nefarious security threats is paramount to both operations as well as your bottom line. According to IBM’s ‘Cost of Data Breach Study‘, “the global average cost of a data breach is up 6.4 percent over the previous year to $3.86 million. The average cost for each lost or … Read More

4 cybersecurity threats to watch out for in 2019

2018 saw a glut of cybersecurity disasters at some of the highest levels of industry and government. From the ~$10 billion NotPetya debacle to Marriott’s 500-million-guest-record theft (which actually started in 2014 and lasted 4 full years, to be fair), it was a banner year for digital criminals. This dangerous environment has cybersecurity as a top item on a lot of … Read More

Infrastructure hacking against the U.S. is proliferating — what does that mean for you?

As we wrote about last month, cyberattacks are getting both more complex as well as destructive. For so many people, this has only meant credit card companies sending you replacement cards from time to time, or possibly Equifax offering you free credit monitoring for a year after allowing a massive data breach, or an inkling that your social security number … Read More

President Trump signs new federal cybersecurity agency, CISA, into existence

While it might not have made nearly as much noise as the Mueller investigation, midterm upheaval or Pelosi speakership drama, there was a piece of really important legislation signed into law late last week that could have major ramifications for how much of the U.S. cybersecurity apparatus operates now and into the future. The bill, known as the CISA Act, (for “Cybersecurity and … Read More

$10 billion lost, a global supply chain crippled, and a miracle mistake: A NotPetya primer — cyberattack of the century

If it hadn’t been for Somali pirates, Navy Seals or the Tom Hanks movie Captain Phillips, chances are you probably wouldn’t have heard of A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, or ‘Maersk’ for short. It’s one of those companies content to work in the background, unnoticed and unknown, while at the same time fueling the entire world economy. It’s one of the largest intermodal logistics … Read More

Chinese spies used a microchip to infiltrate 30+ American tech giants… here’s what you need to know

Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek dropped the bombshell of all bombshells when it comes to cybersecurity. Everyone knows hackers are an ever-present danger in our digital lives — whether its phishing attacks, DDoS attacks, WiFi attacks, whatever — we’re always having to be on the lookout for suspicious activity throughout our digital lives. But a legit and systemic hardware attack? That’s another … Read More

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