No matter how careful you are with your online accounts, there’s only so much that you can do to protect yourself. We leave the rest up to the companies that maintain those accounts, and they are anything but perfect. For example, in August, T-Mobile was the victim of a massive data breach that affected nearly …
For all of the jokes that the internet makes at the expense of LinkedIn, it’s still one of the best ways to quickly and easily share your resume with employers and connect with people across your industry. Of course, there are other reasons that LinkedIn actually deserves our ire, such as leaking personal information. Unfortunately, …
By now, it’s sort of the understatement of the year to note that the coronavirus pandemic has walloped some businesses much harder than others — though, whatever the spectrum that you’re looking at consists of, it’s probably fair to say that cruise ship operators sit on the far end of the long tail where absolutely …
Not a week goes by, it seems, when we don’t have details of a new data breach, password leak or some comparable computer system intrusion by devious hackers to report on. One of the latest is a database of stolen login credentials and other sensitive customer data that was uncovered by NordLocker. It’s a 1.2TB …
Another day, another data breach to report from another company whose customers have been put at risk. This time the company is the automaker Volkswagen, which has been sending out an official data breach notice to customers in recent days that blames the incident on a vendor (used by Volkswagen, Audi, and authorized car dealers) …
Internet commerce has exploded over the past year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which confined millions of people around the world to their homes for months on end in addition to shuttering all kinds of shops and commercial enterprises. That forced consumers to rely more than ever on the delivery of goods to …
One of the bits of news that has been especially frustrating to watch in recent weeks is the spate of ransomware attacks and data breaches pulled off by utterly despicable hackers who’ve decided that healthcare-related operations represent juicy targets for their digital malfeasance. Recent days have seen ransomware gangs attack Ireland’s health care system, knock …
Hackers have been out in force this year, especially when it comes to security incidents like data breaches and, increasingly, the opportunity to take advantage of lax security and other vulnerabilities at banks and financial institutions. A major regional bank based here in Memphis, for example, reported in recent days that some of its customers …
A common refrain among digital security professionals is for users to rely on the services of a strong password manager for their myriad account credentials online. Because in lieu of that, too many people default to the convenience of memory and reuse passwords or create too many that are easily memorable (and, thus, easily guessable …
The second-largest auto insurer in the US, the one with the cute little gecko from the TV commercials that you’re all familiar with, has been hit by a data breach. Geico has disclosed that a security incident occurred between January 21 and March 1 of this year, per a notice filed with the California attorney …
