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Account Takeover Risks of Small Businesses: How to Avoid Them

CTOVision Cybersecurity

Read Ben Hartwig explain how small and medium businesses can avoid account takeover risks on Infosec Magazine: Account takeover seeks to infiltrate an existing account and use them for the […].

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Achieving PCI DSS Compliant Firewalls within a Small Business

Security Boulevard

Elaborating more on this, we have explained in this article basic PCI DSS firewall requirements, and the need for small businesses to install firewalls. This helps facilitates better accountability for the security of the CDE. Why does a small business need to have PCI Compliant Firewall?

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Operation Fortify: A US Ransomware Plan

Daniel Miessler

Our schools are being disabled, our small businesses are being pilfered, our cities are being taken offline, and now our hospitals are being attacked as well. I talk about the reasons here , but in short, we have long had a horrible state of security in our local governments, our small businesses, our schools, and our hospitals.

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DOJ Cybercrime Watchdog’s First Settlement Signals Crackdown on Small Businesses

Security Boulevard

Justice Department’s new Civil-Cyber Fraud Initiative announced its first settlement last month in a novel action that brought false claims allegations over infosec failures against, notably, a sole proprietor. The post DOJ Cybercrime Watchdog’s First Settlement Signals Crackdown on Small Businesses appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Time to Build Accountability Back into Cybersecurity

Threatpost

Chris Hass, director of information security and research at Automox, discusses how to assign security responsibility, punishment for poor cyber-hygiene and IDing 'security champions' to help small businesses.

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Have I Been Pwned Domain Searches: The Big 5 Announcements!

Troy Hunt

" Thing is, "control" is a bit of a nuanced term; there are many people in roles where they don't have access to any of the above means of verification but they're legitimately responsible for infosec and responding to precisely the sorts of notifications HIBP sends out after a breach.

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Chinese hackers allegedly hit thousands of organizations using Microsoft Exchange

Security Affairs

“The attacker only needs to know the server running Exchange and the account from which they want to extract e-mail.” Cyber #Cybersecurity #InfoSec — US-CERT (@USCERT_gov) March 6, 2021. ” reads the analysis published by Volexity. ” wrote Microsoft. ” wrote Microsoft. ” reported Krebs.

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