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Apple Award for IP Patents Carves Out More IT Case Law
Lawsuits are something no one likes talking about. They can happen to any business and are hard to plan for. But because people don't talk much about them, there's a lot of confusion about what a...
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Don’t Forget to Floss Your Passwords: “Cyber Hygiene” Is the Latest in Data...
The former head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff knows a thing or two about security. So when he says that cyber attacks are occurring at "unprecedented" levels, our ears perk up.In a recent...
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12% of iOS Users Are Screechin’ for a Breachin’ (a Data Breachin’)
According to Apple's iOS statistics, 12 percent of its users are still using old versions of the mobile operating system (iOS 6 or earlier), which puts them at serious risk for data breaches. As iOS 7...
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Tried and True: Phishing Scams Still Cause Data Breaches
Phishing attacks can strike organizations of any size. They are especially frustrating for IT professionals because they exploit a weakness that all organizations have: user error.Phishing attacks...
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Addressing (Some) Physical Exposures for Data Breaches
California made news this summer when the state discussed a law that would require mandatory kill switches on smartphones, but as The Independent reports, Minnesota has just beaten the Golden State to...
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Symantec Says Antivirus Software Is Dead. What This Means for Your Clients
Security company Symantec declared in a recent Wall Street Journal article that antivirus software – one of its main products – is "dead," implying it is practically useless at deterring cyber attacks....
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Survey: Consumers Find Data Breaches Only Slightly Better than Oil Spills
New data breach research from Experian examines the effect data breaches have on consumers. With the recent wave of cyber crime and spree of data breaches, this is a hot topic. Experts are looking to...
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What Google's Investment Means for the Future of BYOD
BYOD is an industry buzzword and a source of much anxiety among IT departments. When employees bring their own devices to work, it creates headaches and major security concerns for the IT contractors...
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Home-Grown Data Breaches: How the Internet of Things Is Increasing Your Exposure
The investment resource site MotleyFool reports that Apple announced it would produce software designed to work with the Internet of Things, joining its competitors Google, Microsoft, and Samsung in...
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$4.8 Million HIPAA Settlement Over Data Breach Is Largest to Date
The National Law Review reports that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently required two New York healthcare organizations to pay a joint $4.8 million settlement, the largest ever for a HIPAA data...
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Court Ruling: Cyber Security Is Super-Duper Important
Insurance Journal reports on a court case that confirms what we in the insurance business have warned our customers about for a long time: while General Liability Insurance covers many lawsuits, it...
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Re: Your Recent Spear Phishing Attack
Unless you're an IT professional who lives in Hawaii, most of the time you say the phrase "spear phishing" when you're referring to an email that looks friendly but really contains malware. If you are...
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12% of iOS Users Are Screechin’ for a Breachin’ (a Data Breachin’)
According to Apple's iOS statistics, 12 percent of its users are still using old versions of the mobile operating system (iOS 6 or earlier), which puts them at serious risk for data breaches. As iOS 7...
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Re: Your Recent Spear Phishing Attack
Unless you're an IT professional who lives in Hawaii, most of the time you say the phrase "spear phishing" when you're referring to an email that looks friendly but really contains malware. If you are...
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Cyber Crime Costing Almost as Much as Drug Crime
The Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a report on the total cost of cyber crime, and what it found is astonishing. According to the Washington Post, this report (sponsored by...
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Google's "End-to-End" Like a Seatbelt for Email
For a long time, transportation safety advocates knew that seatbelts would save lives. However, it wasn't until the 1960s that manufacturers were required to install them in cars, and it wasn't until...
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Do We Need a Miss Manners of Data Breaches?
At her peak, Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, wrote a popular advice column that was featured in over 200 newspapers. She helped guide many hapless people through difficult social situations – and some...
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LinkedIn Lawsuit: Courts Catching Up with Tech
Insurance Journal reports that tech companies may be on the hook for more lawsuits as a federal judge ruled that LinkedIn can be sued for its email and data collection policies. A lawsuit against a...
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Why Passwords Matter: The Tricky World of Cyber Insurance
The Columbus Dispatch reports that insurance companies don't yet have reliable models for calculating client cyber risk, so it's hard for them to write policies that cover all the exposures a client...
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Sharing Is Caring: The Future of Cyber Security
Insurance Journal reports on a potential cyber security law being discussed in Congress that could protect consumers and businesses from the risks of lost data.Of course, in Congress, nothing is ever...
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