Well, at least cybercrime does. In fact, it turns out that it pays well. Bromium published a report in 2018 in which it asserted: “High-earning cyber criminals can make $166,000+ per month; Middle-earners can make $75,000+ per month; Low-earners can make $3,500+ per month.” That is serious money for the high and middle earners. For
Wait what? Need the Dark Web? What are you talking about? The truth is so much information about you is already available in all the places where it’s supposed to be secure. Imagine for a second that your personal information only existed in the Dark Web. Ironically, it might really be less accessible – well
WE ARE COMFORTABLY NUMB, AND THE DATA AGGREGATORS KNOW IT…. Who knew Pink Floyd’s classic rock hit could be the theme song to the current state of data breaches. Given the lack of any lasting public outrage for data breaches and leaks of personal data, I find myself wondering if the masses really care? Meaning,
Imagine a ransomware that can get past your endpoint protection, disable Windows Defender, shutdown the host firewall, connect to USB drives, disables access to various executables, encrypts your files and plants its own master boot record and its own boot loader. Not cool, right? How about if it were done just for kicks? Some ransomware
In this 3rd of 6 Vblogs, CTI’s Ben Thurston explains to Mark Janowicz that there is no one cybersecurity solution that will solve all problems when it comes to data security. The best approach, Ben explains is a multi-layered one. The data that is owned by your marketing team contains a lot of important and
Marketing people have access to a lot of customer data – and that makes them prime targets for data breaches – Mark Janowicz talks to Ben Thurston about what marketing professional needs to know about cybersecurity. In this second of six video blogs, CTI’s Ben Thurston explains that not all data are treated equally and
Lessons Not Learned from Target – Why Equifax Type Breaches Will Continue. It’s hard to believe the massive data breach at Target that cost their CEO and CIO their jobs occurred almost four years ago. It was a very high-profile data breach that should have put all C-suite executives on notice that if you fail
Cybersecurity and marketing analytics go hand-in-hand because at the end of the day it’s still about keeping data about your customer and prospects safe and out of the hands of cyber criminals. You certainly do not want the theft of sensitive information to be the next news headline! In this first of six video blogs,
I recently wrote a blog about my thoughts on the Equifax breach and predicted that, once the cause of the breach was revealed, it would be attributed to human error and could have been completely preventable. As it turns out, I was right. While perusing one of my favorites IT websites, The Register, I came
Like many of us who heard about the Equifax data breach last week, I went to their website over the weekend to check if my data was one of 143 million accounts that may have been compromised. Sure enough, it was. Fabulous. I was promptly directed to another Equifax webpage and notified I was eligible
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