by Jon Rubin | May 13, 2021 | Breaches, Critical Infrastructure
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack exposed long-standing vulnerabilities in U.S. cybersecurity: the government and private sector have struggled to work together to build more resilient defenses, and outdated security models have made it difficult for the federal...
by Pete Slade | Sep 23, 2018 | Threats
There are different levels of threat concerning cybersecurity. Sophisticated, prolonged attacks (usually carried out by a nation-state, organized criminal element, rival corporations with the intent of spying on your business, or terrorists) are referred to as...
by Pete Slade | Sep 22, 2017 | Breaches
It’s currently unknown how long hackers were in Equifax’s systems before they were detected, or if the ones discovered were the only ones that took advantage of Equifax’s open door policy. What we do know is that they (and potentially others) possibly lived within the...
by Pete Slade | Sep 14, 2017 | Breaches
On the cyber frontier, more than 143 million Americans were just hit by a digital disaster, this one in the form of a successful hack against Equifax. Equifax is one of three credit reporting agencies, Experian and TransUnion being the others. They provide credit...