TAP Into Technology Blog: Hacks and Breaches (7)
Hijacking Healthcare: Securing Your Smart Devices & Data
When you’re a patient at a hospital, the last thing on your mind is how secure the hospital’s electronic records are. All you want to do is recover. Both patients and staff should be concerned about the safety of digital healthcare...
Dragonfly Power Grid Attacks Hit Home—Now What?
September 2017 has been a bad month for Americans. Here’s what has consumed the news so far: Two catastrophic, physical disasters on US soil—Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma 143 million Americans impacted by the massive Equifax data...
Hijacking Healthcare: Ransomware Attacks vs. Health Record Security
We’ve touched on the looming presence of ransomware in the healthcare industry in the past—but this year it hit especially close to home. In April 2017, Erie County Medical Center, located just a few miles from our Buffalo, NY office, was...
Restaurants Taking Measure to Guard Against Hacks
It’s just another night out with family and friends as you stop and have a bite to eat at your favorite local restaurant. Everything seems normal as the waitress comes over and hands you the bill. But this restaurant has adopted the new...
Ways to Protect Against Phishing
Just like the internet, phishing has evolved more and more over the years. Of the more than 537,000 phishing threats that were reported in the 2017 Global Spear Phishing Report, 91 percent (490,557) contained characteristics of display...
When Did Phishing Become a Social Problem?
In the world of technology, social media is starting to become king. Just think about this for a minute, 15 years ago, there was no Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. Now, it seems every American is on one or all of these devices....