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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...

Lateral Movement in Your Network. Can you tell?

By  Keith Wilson   One of the most damaging assumptions an organization can make is to assume an attacker’s end goal is to compromise a network. The majority of threat actors are after your data, not just circumventing firewalls and access controls. If they gain access to your network but get found out before they can steal anything, the attack was most likely considered a failure. To assume you have lost the moment an attacker gains...