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Securing Your Future with a Virtual CISO

Fractional Chief Information Security Officer (CIS , Compliance & Privacy , penetration testing , Compliance , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

The enterprise is facing a dangerous combination of mounting cybersecurity threats of increasing subtlety, and a widening gap in the skills required to identify and combat them. Having someone that knows how to lead the charge in identifying and analyzing threats, creating strategic security plans and ensuring compliance, requires the right level of expertise. Many businesses, especially small and medium businesses, simply don’t have it.

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Data Privacy Alert Vol 13.81 – Massive breach at health care company Anthem Inc.

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Michelle Drolet

Anthem, the nation's second-largest health insurance company, is the latest target of a security breach. Eighty million customers, including the company's own CEO, are at risk of having their personal information stolen. VPC SAN FRANCISCO - As many as 80 million customers of the nation's second-largest health insurance company, Anthem Inc., have had their account information stolen, the company said in a statement. "Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber-attack," Anthemfalse

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Data Privacy Alert Vol 13.80 - CES 2015 Trends that Can Impact Data and Privacy

Wearables , 3D Printing , Smart Device , CES , Mobile Devices , Bluetooth , Smart Home , Wireless , Information Security , Mobile Apps , Cloud Security , Compliance & Privacy , ATM , Portables , Mobile Security , Data Breach

Michelle Drolet

As the International Consumer Electronice Show (CES) 2015 brings forth the next generation of devices to watch out for, it also opens issues of digital security. While new technologies and devices are always interesting, they also have the potential to burn consumers and vendors with risks to security and privacy. With these in mind, we picked out four tech trends from CES 2015 can impact your data and privacy.

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Towerwall and MassBay Host Another Successful Information Security Summit

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Michelle Drolet

Towerwall teamed up with MassBay Community College on May 29 to present the second annual Information Security Summit at MassBay’s Wellesley Hills campus from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Over 250 individuals attended the Summit where they interacted with industry experts and participated in various security panel discussions. After a presentation on the "Anatomy of a Malware Attack" by Sophos, and the keynote by Chris Logan of Care New England Health Systems, the Summit offered a number of breakoutfalse

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Reminder: Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

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Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business!

Towerwall Information Security/Malware Alert Vol 13.67 - Notorious "Gameover" malware gets itself a kernel-mode rootkit...

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Michelle Drolet

Zeus, also known as Zbot, is a malware family that we have written about many times on Naked Security. We've covered it as plain old Zbot. We've covered the Citadel variant, which appeared when the original Zbot code was leaked online. We've even written about the time it pretended to be a Microsoft fix for CryptoLocker, a completely different strain of malware. Currently, the most widespread Zbot derivative is the Gameover bot, also known as Zeus P2P because of its use of peer-to-peer networkfalse

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Top 10 things to know about mobile security

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Michelle Drolet

10. Malware is on the rise

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Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

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Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business!

Hackers leak 1 million Apple device IDs

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Michelle Drolet

To cap off a summer of devastating corporate data breaches, hackers yesterday posted online what might be the crown jewel of 2012 data dumps: 1 million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch's, all purportedly stolen from the FBI. There may also be an additional 11 million Apple device IDs yet to be released, many with users' full names, addresses and telephone numbers attached.

Loss Of Customer Personal Information Damages Banks’ Credibility

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Michelle Drolet

On Jan. 5, federal law enforcement seized several automobiles worth about $100,000 in value. They had belonged to the former president of the Massachusetts Bank and Trust Company and were taken as restitution for his defrauding the bank in 1997. It seems that not a day passes by when news of banking-related fraud, money laundering, or a privacy violation is reported. Last year in May, Bank of America sustained a $10-million loss when an insider sold the bank’s customer data to organizedfalse

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