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Data Breach vs. Identity Theft: Help Your Clients Understand the Difference
What is the difference between a data breach and identity theft? In the media, many people toss around these terms willy-nilly. They are connected, of course, but understanding the difference is...
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Courts Slowly Build Tech Case Law: App Thieves Punished
Political news site The Hill reports good news for mobile app developers: the Justice Department has officially convicted its first mobile app pirates. These criminals set up app piracy sites called...
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Study: Only 9% of Companies Feel Safe from Insider Data Threats
When talking about data security, it's easy to think only of outside threats (such as hackers and malware) and forget that many of the biggest dangers to data come from within an organization. Insider...
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Java Update Reveals Why Business Software Is More Vulnerable than Consumer...
Security researcher Brian Krebs reports on the Java 7 and Java 8 updates that Oracle pushed out last earlier this month to fix 37 bugs and some major security issues in the Java SE platform.Among the...
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Web Host Liabilities: How Hackers Can Shut Down Your Clients’ Website
Many of your clients use web hosts and kits (like those offered with WordPress), which could expose your clients to data breaches and downtime – and ultimately lead to a lawsuit filed against your...
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Technology Errors & Omissions Insurance in Action: a $17 Million E&O Claim
The Republic recently reported on an IT lawsuit that could cost one tech company more than $17 million. A North Dakota insurance agency filed a lawsuit against Aon eSolutions, a Chicago IT vendor that...
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Want More Clients? It May Be Time to Incorporate
An article on the legal resource webpage Nolo.com suggests that independent contractors should consider incorporating (founding a legal corporation) in order to get more clients. It argues that clients...
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Client Education: Best Ways to Invite a Data Breach
A Business News Daily article profiles the problems IT professionals face when trying to find efficient and safe file-sharing solutions for their customers. As it points out, finding an IT solution is...
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OpenSSL Made Less Than a Part-Time Fast Food Worker
If there's an upside to the whole Heartbleed debacle, it's that the media drew attention to an incredible disparity: the group that works on OpenSSL gets less than $2,000 dollars a year to maintain the...
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$3 Million Settlement Paves the Way for Non-Identity-Theft Data Breach Awards
Computer World reports that a federal court in Florida just issued a game-changing verdict about data breaches. The court decided that companies are liable to pay damages to all customers whose data is...
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84% of CIOs Probably Want to Hire You
Mobile Marketer reports that companies will be looking to hire mobile developers and marketing firms in the coming year. According to a new study done by IBM, 84 percent of chief innovation officers...
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What Happens if I Don’t Update Windows XP?
As an IT professional, you've probably heard the news that Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows XP, but what do you do about clients who are still using this old Windows operating...
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Gadgets over Gals & Guys? Survey Says Gear Beats Humans
According to an Inc. magazine article, research shows that small-business owners think it's smarter to spend money on new technology than on new employees. Why is that? Small-business owners think...
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How You Should Deal with Heartbleed
In a jaw-dropping report on PCMagazine published less than a week ago, security analysts at Google and Codenomicon revealed that there is a major bug (aka the “Heartbleed” bug) in OpenSSL, which is a...
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New Security Flaws in Oracle Products Prove IT Contractors Are Always at Risk
According to an article on Kaspersky’s Threatpost.com, security researchers became upset with Oracle's slow efforts to update major security flaws in its Java cloud services and decided to publicly...
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Personal Data Theft Up 82% in the Last 6 Months
According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January, nearly one in five Americans reported that they have had private information (such as such as social security and credit card numbers)...
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IBM’s Newest Services Reflect Data Security Fears
A recent TechCrunch article details how IBM is shaking things up in the cloud-security world by offering a way for its clients to be more involved in their security and expanding data backup.Many...
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Good News: Data Breach Insurance Is Going Mainstream
CNBC reports that from 2012 to 2013, there was a 20 percent increase in businesses investing in Cyber Liability Insurance (aka “Data Breach Insurance” or “Cyber Risk Insurance”). The reasons for this...
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How Will Proposed Net Neutrality Rules Affect Small Businesses?
This fall, when a court ruled that Verizon could charge more for priority bandwidth, the blogosphere was rife with experts declaring an end to "net neutrality." Well, be prepared for more debate about...
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2014 Cost of a Data Breach: 15% Higher
This time of year is an important one for data security research. Verizon publishes its review of the past year's data breaches, and the Ponemon Institute, a tech research organization, publishes its...
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