By: Kirby G Mack (Vice President of Digital Media) New lawsuit claims 2.7 billion records from National Public Data, including 500 million Social Security numbers, have been leaked on the dark web in August of this year. CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR DATA WAS LEAKED IN THIS BREACH HERE: https://npd.pentester.com/ Earlier [...]
By Kirby Mack, Vice President of Digital Media at Simplicity Lone Beacon Have you ever looked at the recommended maintenance or service schedule of your vehicle? We all know, or at least we should know, that we need to change the tires, the oil, and the battery regularly. But do [...]
QR Codes are great. As a matter of fact, I wrote a glowing article about QR Codes, their history, and their glorious comeback. (which you can read here, QR Codes – The Comeback Kid!) But of course, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Imagine this, you are on a [...]
Picture this: It’s late at night, you’re binge-watching Ozark on Netflix, but thanks to that whole pizza you just finished off, you’re in a food coma. You start to doze. But suddenly, you get an email. You unlock your phone and scroll to your inbox...only...to...discover...the email came from inside [...]
There is a little saying I use when talking to people about the importance of maintenance and security on their website. To set and forget is to welcome the threat. Just as most people think that the launching of a website will immediately and automatically drive business [...]
The events of the last couple years have forced companies to look more towards digitizing than ever before, and perhaps more quickly than they had prepared for. While this trend towards digital has allowed for greater productivity, businesses need to have a cybersecurity plan in place to prepare for possible [...]
Your website is your store front, the face you show to the world. Everyone thinks about how their site looks and what it says, but they might not think about the protocol for keeping it secure. But keeping a website secure is more complex than simply locking the door at [...]
Over the past year, we have seen large scale data breaches to digital giants, such as Equifax and Orbitz, and recently Facebook, influencing millions of people. Websites are constantly at the risk of a hack attack, and consumer confidence in digital data protection is at an all-time low. Globally, EU [...]
A look at what modern-day pirates view as valuable resources to mine from your website. Mar 21, 2018 By Kirby Mack, Director of Digital Media A cyberattack can target any firm, no matter the size. Most of the time, a hacker’s main objective is to exploit one of the following [...]
By Mike Schaffman, Director of Marketing at Simplicity Lone Beacon. The digital space affords us many opportunities to do more than we ever thought possible, but it comes with new and unforeseen risks. Recent reports indicate that 74 percent of financial advisors have been the target of a cyberattack. That’s [...]
