What have we learned from the Equifax hack? Maybe nothing? Maybe everything? Maybe something in between? The stats are alarming, of course. Equifax, which is one of the triumvirate of major consumer credit reporting agencies, said last week that hackers had been able to access data across...
September 11, 2017
What have we learned from the Equifax hack? Maybe nothing? Maybe everything? Maybe something in between? The stats are alarming, of course. Equifax, which is one of the triumvirate of major consumer credit reporting agencies, said last week that hackers had been able to access data across 143 million consumer accounts, or more than half the country’s […]
May 02, 2019
Microsoft‘s chief information security officer (CISO), Brett Arsenault, believes that when it comes to protecting companies and individuals from cyberattacks, passwords are typically useless. He should know: Microsoft handles 6.5 trillion cybersecurity incidents each year, with spam email, scams and phishing schemes making up most of those attacks. In fact, he explained that email-based and password-based hacking […]
