The Under Armour subsidiary MyFitnessPal has officially confirmed the theft of account data for over 150 million users. The MyFitnessPal Hack In February 2018, unknown actors accessed the protected data of MyFitnessPal (MFP), a fitness […]
In the days following the latest Facebook scandal, in which we learned that Cambridge Analytica collected and misused the personal data of potentially 50 million American Facebook users, we have seen: A large social media […]
On February 28th, 2018, GitHub reported that it experienced the largest DDoS attack on record, with a maximum volume of 1.35Tbps. The GitHub Attack Process Many applications use a memory caching system called “memcached“. Administrators […]
Researchers at Stanford recently published a paper exploring the harvesting of demographic information from an unlikely source: Google Street View. By using a method of deep learning called “Convolutional Neural Networks”, the researchers successfully determined […]
Extreme Weather WILL happen. Cyber Attacks WILL happen. WILL You be Prepared WHEN they strike?? In this blog, I compare cyber threats and natural disasters to explain why a cybersecurity strategy is an important component […]
The implementation deadline for the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming soon. Most of us in the US are probably not yet ready for the potential business impact of the new European […]
Over the past few weeks, T-Mobile users have reported receiving strange texts warning them of “phone number port out scans”. What’s Happening at T-Mobile? T-Mobile has confirmed that they have been sending out texts warning […]
Kaspersky Labs revealed today that a previously-unknown attack on the popular messaging app Telegram infects users’ devices with cryptocurrency mining malware. Research indicates that Russian cybercriminals have used this exploit since March 2017 to mine […]
Check out Danielle’s related post for small- to medium-sized enterprises. January 28th is Data Protection Day in the United States and Europe. The celebration of this day is the anniversary of “the signing of the […]