LANSING - With Yahoo having up to 1 billion users’ emails compromised, employee data breached from the Federal Government multiple times, and other personal information data breaches, Michigan employers need to take greater action than ever before to protect their data. If your Michigan organization experiences a breach, the Michigan Identity Theft Protection Act of
PALO ALTO, CA. - Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday that it has identified a new breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than one billion user accounts, double the number affected in a different breach disclosed in September. Yahoo said it believed the latest incident was likely distinct from the
NEW YORK - A new report contends more than 50 percent of retailers have failed to meet the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards, putting both them and their customer at risk this Holiday Season to hackers. The 2016 Biggest Holiday Retailers Cybersecurity Report, taken by SecurityScorecard, provides a comprehensive analysis exposing frightening cybersecurity vulnerabilities
SAN FRANCISCO - Evan Robertson won his school science fair this year by proving just how thoughtless people can be on public Wi-Fi networks. Evan, now 11, programmed fake Wi-Fi portals and took them to food courts shopping centers across the Austin, Texas, area and waited to see how many agreed to some pretty outrageous
ROYAL OAK - Cyber bad guys are playing havoc with the Internet including an attack on Cyber Monday in Germany. Hackers drove about 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers off the Internet impacting Holiday sales. In October, hackers also launched a Distributed Denial of Service attack targeted at the Domain Name System (DNS) that makes sure information
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann talks about the ongoing challenge of ransomware, the DDoS attacks around the world, including in the United States that have brought down some major eCommerce websites. Lohrmann also talked about a recent article he wrote that said the recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin are unlikely to reveal cyber
WASHINGTON - The majority of U.S. small businesses are not backing up data in the cloud with the support of a professional and automated backup service, as evidenced by new survey data from Clutch, a leading B2B ratings and reviews firm. Backup services, such as Mozy and Carbonite, automate the transfer of files to the
WASHINGTON DC - Starting Dec. 1, federal investigators can seek permission from a magistrate to plant hacking software on a computer that’s disguising its location. The change affects Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which are proposed by the US Department of Justice and approved by the US Supreme Court. This form
NOVI - The cyberthreat landscape is daunting. Attackers are spending more than 200 days on average in companies they breach – and the amount of damage that can be done in that time is mind-boggling. Three quarters of those breaches are tied to the mismanagement or theft of user credentials. And the cost of these breaches
PINCKNEY - Pinckney Community Schools will become the latest Cyber Range Hub - and the only one connected to a high school in Michigan - with its Grand Opening on Dec. 7. The Pinckney Cyber Training Institute will provide high school and college students as well as I.T. professionals a site to take cyber security
