On Black Friday, electronic toymaker VTech Holdings announced that it has been the victim of a data breach that compromised information about 4.8 million parents and 200,000 children. The Hong Kong-based company reported than an “unauthorized party” accessed data in…
Cyberthieves recently hacked into British internet provider TalkTalk’s server and stole personal information on many of the company’s 4 million customers. A 15-year-old suspect has been arrested in the case. As pointed out by the Financial Times, …the arrest of…
On September 2, 2014 credit and debit card data stolen from Home Depot customers went on the online black market. Within three minutes from the time the data went on sale, $100,000 in fraudulent charges were made to cards issued…
Last week we posted a blog asking “What Could Be Worse Than Getting Your Bank Account Hacked?” Last week’s answer was having certain behavior you might not want your spouse to find out about (a profile on a website for…
Practically every day we read about a major new data breach. Nothing seems safe – banks, retailers, even the government have been hacked, exposing our personal information. Many people think the worst thing that could happen data security-wise would be…
Sometimes hackers need to use sophisticated techniques to get into computer networks. But sometimes the victims make it WAAAAAYYYY too easy – as this case may demonstrate. The Moneyball Hack As reported by the New York Times, the US Justice…
Published by TheHill by Guy Fielder Congress has been trying to pass “patent reforms” that will stop “patent trolls.” Unfortunately, there’s a hidden agenda behind these “reforms.” There definitely are some bad apples out there – people who send spam…
This article was published on The Hill, a leading news source for happenings in Congress. It was written by David Pridham, CEO of Dominion Harbor Group. It’s patent reform season in Congress again, and along with the warming weather comes…
These days, you’d think that any company offering a new method of making financial transactions would have learned something from the thousands of data breaches in the past few years. (The top 20 breaches for 2014 are reported here.) Unfortunately,…
Reuters is reporting that some security experts are predicting that 2015 will be the “Year of the Health Care Hack.” The year got off to a bad start, security wise, with the recent hack attack on Anthem, Inc., the number…
