Vera Bradley Announces Data Breach at Retail Stores
Vera Bradley, the maker of women’s handbags and accessories, said attackers compromised its payment processing system and were able to steal card data for customers who used cards in the company’s stores from the end of July through late September of this year. It...
Cybercrime in Canada: The impact on SMBs
Cybercrime may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Canada, but these days cybercrime is top of mind for many Canadian small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). In a recent survey of more than 1,000 people working in IT at Canadian companies...
Organizations ‘need to deliver social engineering training’
More focus on how to spot social engineering attacks is needed in organizations, according to an expert. Jenny Radcliffe, who specializes in the “psychology” of this technique, said that organizations now have to move on from social engineering awareness, reported...
DDoS Attack on Krebs has implications you should be aware of
The recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack on KrebsOnSecurity.com has security implications which are wider reaching that you need to consider. The internet of things or IoT, has the potential to be a massive DDoS weapon and wielding that weapon might eventually hit small businesses with the only obvious options being pay lots of money for protection, or ask Google (alphabet) for help. There are other options!
