by Bob Martin | Jan 21, 2015 | Data Protection, Data Security, IT Support
Did you know hackers are not afraid to take control of your business’s equipment remotely? The US Department of Homeland Security, for example, recently investigated medical devices for exactly that flaw. In fact, a Russian hacking group, “Energetic...
by Bob Martin | Jan 7, 2015 | Data Protection, Data Security
Do you want your healthcare company to be like Jersey City Medical Center, which lost the private data, including social security numbers, of many of its patients? It happened because someone lost a CD with all this data on it. And the data was unencrypted, so cyber...
by Bob Martin | Dec 30, 2014 | Data Protection, Data Security
Do you remember Heartbleed and all the chaos it caused? No one seems to have accurate estimates of the total damage it caused, but one cloud vendor found that it cost them around $400,000 in lost network bandwidth. It seems like you hear of a new virus that’s going to...
by Bob Martin | Dec 12, 2014 | Data Protection, Data Security
Quick: what’s one of the leading causes for all viruses any computer network gets? User error! And unfortunately, no matter how good any antivirus program is, it can’t possibly make up for every possible computer virus your users could click on. They could easily...
by Bob Martin | Dec 10, 2014 | Data Protection, Data Security, IT security
On December 6th millions were hit by what experts are calling the fastest moving computer virus ever. The data security attack hit the UK very hard, but in the world of cyber crime, it doesn’t take long to spread worldwide. Here are the details that you need to...
by Bob Martin | Nov 12, 2014 | Data Protection, Data Security
You would think that, as our world grows and advances technologically, the cyber world would get even safer. But the reality is that it only becomes more difficult (not impossible) for cyber criminals to do their work. And they work just as hard at disobeying the law...
