Voting Machines Are Full of Personal Information When you register to vote, your personal information is stored in various locations. Once that information is logged and saved, it’s out of your hands. You’ll find it impossible to check if various levels of government are handling your personal information correctly. Who will punish the government, when…
The 3 Biggest Data Breaches Data breaches can happen to anyone, any time. How a company responds to these breaches is important for its customers’ privacy and the company’s reputation. What are some of the world’s biggest data breaches? Yahoo, Equifax, and Uber. What happened? Yahoo Yahoo had some data breaches in 2013 and 2014…
Ransomware Attack At Hospital in Wyoming No one is safe from data breaches, not even hospitals. A ransomware attack at the Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyoming happened last Friday morning. This small-town trauma hospital had to send its patients more than 125 miles away from town to another hospital so they could be…
Capital One Hacker Caught Red Handed Digital documents are fairly small, but a criminal had terabytes handy Terabytes of data were stolen by Paige Thompson in Seattle from the convenience of her home. A server loaded with thousands of gigabytes was recently found to be in her possession. More than 30 companies were breached by…
Digital Master Keys Digital locksmiths are referred to as cyber security experts. As defense engineers, they design systems to protect and fortify digital networks. From time to time someone forgets to lock a backdoor and all the juicy inside secrets spill out into the world. Sometimes the lock malfunctions without anyone noticing for a long…
What Is Identity Theft? Identity theft is something that can happen to anyone. With an increase in identity theft these days, anybody is at risk. Hackers steal your information from a website you use when your password is weak. Sometimes they will hack a whole database of users, and the company must release a statement…
Getting Rid of Digital Baggage Deleting something and starting fresh is something generally discouraged by social media and tech giants. It’s hard enough to throw away physical junk, but it’s even harder to throw away years of digital data that just sits around. If you can’t bear to delete it, then you should at the…
Data Leaks Continue to Increase Identity Fraud Data is valuable to hold, but often easily stolen When large corporations leak your data, they don’t actually lose anything until they’re either sued or the government steps in. Most cyber criminals take a copy of the data and leave everything behind intact. Copying documents is far less…
Canadian Doxxer Dumps Personal Data of ~3 Million People All it takes is one employee to unload a massive data breach. Such was the case in Canada, where a disgruntled employee working at Desjardins Group unloaded the personal files of 2.7 million people and about 173,000 businesses. For whatever reason he was angry at the…
Phishing for Personal Info Same scam, different techniques Somethings never get old and stealing information is one of those things. Phishing is commonly done through email, but times have changed so much since the first iteration of the World Wide Web. We’re practically on a whole new playing field, with new rules and gadgets. It’s…