CarTek VLOG – Episode 1 – What Small Businesses Should Know About Cybersecurity
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GPDR – The Mother of All Data Privacy or Not
Depending on who you ask, General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) is here to stay, and possibly at a very high cost. Sometime between May 20, 2013 and June 5, 2013 Edward Snowden, a former CIA (not the CIA triad) employee leaked thousands of classified documents detailing how the United States collected and used individuals’ private […]
Financial Crimes – A growing Epidemic
Some of you may have heard that there was a breach at the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) back in 2016. However, the impact of the breach is only recently being detailed. The hackers were able to breach the Edgar System, which is used to transmit data related to company filings. Usually, the company would send […]
KRACK Vulnerability
In case you missed it, recently researchers have found a new vulnerability in the WPA2 wireless encryption process. This affects most home and small business networks as for years WPA2 has been the recommended wireless security protocol. According to an article from eweek.com, these new vulnerabilities are collectively referred to as “KRACK Attacks,” and were publicly […]
Who is Safe? – Whole Foods Breach
In a June 2017 cost of security data breach study by IBM and Ponemon Institute, the cost of data breaches is going down, however, breaches are becoming more frequent. Just as you were figuring out the news about the Equifax hack, Wholefoods grocery Stores announces that it is the latest victim of credit card […]
Tips to Protect Yourself from the Equifax Breach
As I am sure you are aware, there was a major security breach for the credit bureau, Equifax. What you may not know is how the breach occurred. Let me assure you that the method used to steal our personal information was not as sophisticated as you may think. Simply put, there was an unpatched […]
DeOS – The Upcoming Cybersecurity Weapon of Data Destruction
Destruction of Service (DeOS), Cisco sounds the alarm. First it was Denial of Service (DOS), then came Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), then Ransomware and now, DeOS? As enterprises and consumers move to cloud infrastructures, this term will no doubt become mainstream very soon and very quickly, says Cisco. The Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report recently […]
Tips for protecting IoT Devices
The internet of things (IoT) has become a point of focus for me lately. Not too long ago I posted a YouTube video and wrote a blog about IoT and its relationship to data privacy. In both the video and the blog my conclusion was very simple – there is an inverse relationship between more […]
Cybersecurity Insurance – What you should know
As a small business owner, CarTek understands the importance of protecting your business. Typically, we focus on helping companies to lower their risk by conducting assessments and providing cyber security solution recommendations. However, there is another piece to the puzzle that is extraordinarily important in lowering risk. That is the act of transferring risk with […]
Net Neutrality – In My Opinion
I am sure by now, you have seen the new internet privacy bill that was passed a couple of months back. Well, I guess it is my turn to add my two cents. So, hear goes. When the new internet privacy bill was introduced, the chief argument from the service providers perspective was that […]
