Cybersecurity Technology
Breach Breakdown: Apollo
What Happened: Apollo Apollo is a sales engagement startup that helps salespeople connect with prospective customers. This startup is the latest company who failed to properly protect their data. As a result, attackers were able to access the company contact database that is used to match sellers with potential buyers. The prospect database contains 200…
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We are now days away from the Rochester Security Summit (RSS)! Join us and other cybersecurity professionals at RSS on October 9-10 at Rochester Riverside Convention Center to learn about cutting-edge technology for the cybersecurity industry. Stop by our booth to talk to our reps on how Brite can help you Break Through the Clutter! In…
Read MoreBreach Breakdown: Chegg Data Breach
What happened: Chegg, an education technology company has announced that the company suffered a data breach. The breach occurred in April, but it was only discovered last week on September 19. The unauthorized party gained access to a company database that hosts user data for Chegg.com. It is estimated that the hackers accessed the data…
Read MoreBreach Breakdown: GovPayNow Leaks 14M+ Records
What Happened: GovPayNet (GovPayNow.com) is the latest victim of a data leak. The online payment company is used by more than 2,000 government agencies in 35 states for online payment of everything from traffic citations to court-ordered fines. On September 14, 2018, it was discovered that more than 14 million customer records could be accessed…
Read MoreAI and Cybersecurity: The Battle Between Good and Evil
From Siri and Watson to self-driving cars – artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of our everyday life. Machine learning, one type of AI, allows the automation of processes and human-like decision making. The substitute of human effort for AI has certainly found its place in cybersecurity. The Good AI is being applied in one…
Read MoreBreach Breakdown: Veeam Exposed Customer Records
What happened: Veeam, a Swiss-based data company exposed more than 445 million records after using a misconfigured host on Amazon Web Services. The issue was that it did not require any password to access. An independent security researcher, Bob Diachenko, discovered the open database on September 5. Diachenko notified Veeam about the issue but received no response. …
Read MoreHurricane Florence: Tips to Prepare Your Business
Today’s blog is brought to you by our partner Datto. Republished from Datto’s Blog Originally published on September 10, 2018 By Chris Brunau Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 storm. Florence is capable of catastrophic damage with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. The storm is expected to make landfall…
Read MoreBreach Breakdown: MEGA Extension Hack
What Happened: On September 4, an unknown hacker uploaded a malicious version of a MEGA Chrome extension. The MEGA.nz extension is a cloud storage service. The attacker was able to hack into MEGA’s Google Chrome web store account and upload the malicious version. The malicious version allowed the hacker to steal users’ credentials for popular websites…
Read MoreBack to Basics: Multi-factor Authentication
It has never been more important for cybersecurity to be a company priority then right now. The average cost of an U.S. data breach is $7.91M (whereas the global cost of a data breach is $3.86M). Companies need to be investing in the proper steps to minimize the risk of an attack or else… There are basic cybersecurity practices…
Read MoreThree Networks Every Company Needs
Today’s Brite Insight is brought to you by one of Brite’s certified ForeScout Engineers, Matt Ostrowski. Matt specializes in unique ForeScout deployments and enjoys finding new ways to utilize the technology. Network access control, or NAC, allows you to pre-determine a set of parameters and policies that either allow or deny a device access.…
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