Small business owners: protecting your business against cybercrime is now more important than ever.
In 2015, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence ranked cybercrime as the No. 1 security threat in the country. Despite popular belief, cybercriminals actually prefer small businesses simply because they are easier to infiltrate. Continue reading
Fraudsters are constantly looking for new methods of stealing personal information, making traditional ways to spot illegitimate sites or potential malware attacks ultimately useless. Graham Cluley reports the emergence of two new cyber crime tactics.
The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it recently identified and halted a cyber attack against their Electronic Filing Personal Identification Numbers (E-file PIN) application on IRS.gov.
This is the second cyberattack against the IRS in the past year. Continue reading
Within less than one week into the new year (January 6 to be exact), Time Warner Cable disclosed a potential hack of customer account information that impacted 320,000 subscribers. Exposed data included users’ email addresses and passwords. Continue reading