GDPR Notification of a personal data breach - Not later than 72 hours after having become aware, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority. Here’s what you’ll need to include: describe the nature of the personal data breach including where possible, the categories and approximate number of data [...]
Anytime you are taking on a complicated and crucially important corporate project with multiple layers, multiple points of contact, competing priorities and deadlines; you are most likely going to want to work with a project manager. Someone that can manage things as efficiently as possibly, allowing you to achieve the [...]
I find that hackers love to play on our emotions, in particular. They love to get us really scared, happy, sad or angry so that we are not thinking straight. If you come across someone asking you for your sensitive information, and they invoke a strong emotion out of you, [...]
Personal information of thousands of FedEx customers worldwide was exposed on the web due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage server which was carelessly NOT secured with a password. Many data breaches don’t involve sophisticated hackers – just a question of someone being careless. Despite all of the [...]
If a hacker reaches out to us pretending to be someone we know or disguises a fake website to look like a legitimate one, and we willfully give them our information, passwords, gift cards, money and so on, our technology will have a hard time protecting us. Regardless of the [...]
All cybercrime begins and ends with what the cybercriminal is targeting: your sensitive information. One of the best tips for cybersecurity awareness is to make sure you are aware of what information of yours is sensitive and remain especially careful with where you put it and who you allow to [...]
I just got an email from a very sincere sounding gentleman that wants to actually give me $5 million USD. He took the time to give me quite a bit of detail in his intro, let me share: "Hello Dear Friend, I am Col. Hussein Harmush, An Army officer from [...]
In the last week alone there have been at least seven reported data breaches. These breaches are happening at companies like Delta, Best Buy, Panera, and many others. Between January 2005 and March 2018, there have been over 8,800 breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Combined those breaches [...]
Interesting stat number 1: A study by Ponemon in February of 2018 found that 80 percent of cybersecurity and IT experts anticipate a catastrophic data breach at their companies by 2021. Interesting stat number 2: According to the Ponemon Institute, the average time for breach detection is 191 days, i.e. [...]
Imagine if you lived in the most secure house in the world, with an impenetrable door and an impenetrable lock on that door. Your incredibly impenetrable house will do you little good if the criminal on the other end of that door tricks you into willfully opening the door every [...]