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Tag: Security Awareness

Consumers, Your Data is a Joke

Companies do not care about protecting consumer data and the Equifax breach confirms this. Equifax faced a day of reckoning on Monday. The credit company was fined close to 700 million dollars for their 2017 attack . The hack exposed the data of over 143 million consumers. The breach leaked full names, date of births, SSN, Driver’s license numbers, tax ID and other sensitive information. Sure, the company is being fined and victims are being...

Be Security Aware or Prey.

What does it mean to be Security Aware? The persistent onslaught  of Social Engineering, Phishing scams and Ransomware, warns that we cannot afford to be reactive, clueless, nor apathetic about the need to be security aware: Security awareness training is a formal process for educating employees about computer security. A good security awareness program should educate employees about corporate policies and procedures for working with...