Posts by Lilly Ice

Cybercrime costs $11 million USD per minute or $190,000 per second globally on average. 60% of small and mid-sized companies who suffer a data breach wind up folding within six months because they can’t afford the recovery cost. These costs include loss of business, downtime/productivity losses, reparation costs for customers that have had data stolen,…

People change their mobile numbers all the time. When someone moves, they usually want a number that’s local to the new area.  Businesses often recycle their own phone numbers due to employee turnover. If a mobile number doesn’t properly detach from the accounts it previously linked to, all those accounts are open to identity theft,…

People today work remotely and in office.  The line between personal and work tasks blurs more by the day. If you’re in front of a computer for most waking hour, then it’s normal to get attached to your regular PC. Given enough time, people usually start performing personal tasks on work computers.  In the beginning,…

The Dark Web sells stolen login credentials constantly.  There’s even price points for each type of account. For instance, social media account credentials go for between $30 to $80 apiece. Online banking accounts obviously go for a lot more. Cloud service use has led to a huge upswing in breached cloud accounts.  IBM Security’s most…

Phishing represents the most reliable method of attack over the Internet. Why? Because it relies on human behavior, not coding skill.  These days, we’re usually pretty good at avoiding email phishing. However, this being an arms race, other types of phishing are growing fast. Within the last few years, social media phishing has jumped by…