The Safeguards Rule affects any company or entity that offers or supports financial services, for example, dealerships and other similar industries that collect customer financial data. The new guidelines were published on December 9, 2021, giving those impacted by the changes a year to comply with the new standards and objectives. Starting December 9, 2022, amendments… Read More »FTC Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
One constant about technology is that it changes rapidly. Tools that were once staples, like Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash, age out. New tools replace those that are obsolete. Discontinued technology can leave computers and networks vulnerable to attacks. While older technology may still run fine on your systems that doesn’t mean that it’s okay to… Read More »6 Discontinued Technology Tools You Should Not Be Using Any Longer
Screenshotting is an easy and effective way of sharing the contents of your display, but they are equally as dangerous as they are useful. Screenshotting is used by millions worldwide to share information and photos via a couple easy buttons on a smartphone, but on PC it’s a whole process. Because the process isn’t clear on… Read More »Using Third-Party Screenshot Apps are a Privacy Concern
Story by Ravie Lakshmanan A China-based advanced persistent threat (APT) group is possibly deploying short-lived ransomware families as a decoy to cover up the true operational and tactical objectives behind its campaigns. The activity cluster, attributed to a hacking group dubbed Bronze Starlight by Secureworks, involves the deployment of post-intrusion ransomware such as LockFile, Atom Silo, Rook, Night… Read More »State-Backed Hackers Using Ransomware as a Decoy for Cyber Espionage Attacks
The Russian Federation has collected massive amounts of information about American businesses and citizens. The site is run on the Tor system. Cy-Quest Global managed to get partial information about a few companies that are listed on the site. The site has a brokerage company out of Pakistan that runs under the name United States business… Read More »Open Door site offers more than Business Intel