NEW YORK - A new report contends more than 50 percent of retailers have failed to meet the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards, putting both them and their customer at risk this Holiday Season to hackers. The 2016 Biggest Holiday Retailers Cybersecurity Report, taken by SecurityScorecard, provides a comprehensive analysis exposing frightening cybersecurity vulnerabilities
SAN FRANCISCO - Evan Robertson won his school science fair this year by proving just how thoughtless people can be on public Wi-Fi networks. Evan, now 11, programmed fake Wi-Fi portals and took them to food courts shopping centers across the Austin, Texas, area and waited to see how many agreed to some pretty outrageous
ROYAL OAK - Cyber bad guys are playing havoc with the Internet including an attack on Cyber Monday in Germany. Hackers drove about 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers off the Internet impacting Holiday sales. In October, hackers also launched a Distributed Denial of Service attack targeted at the Domain Name System (DNS) that makes sure information
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann talks about the ongoing challenge of ransomware, the DDoS attacks around the world, including in the United States that have brought down some major eCommerce websites. Lohrmann also talked about a recent article he wrote that said the recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin are unlikely to reveal cyber
WASHINGTON - The majority of U.S. small businesses are not backing up data in the cloud with the support of a professional and automated backup service, as evidenced by new survey data from Clutch, a leading B2B ratings and reviews firm. Backup services, such as Mozy and Carbonite, automate the transfer of files to the
WASHINGTON DC - Starting Dec. 1, federal investigators can seek permission from a magistrate to plant hacking software on a computer that’s disguising its location. The change affects Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which are proposed by the US Department of Justice and approved by the US Supreme Court. This form
NOVI - The cyberthreat landscape is daunting. Attackers are spending more than 200 days on average in companies they breach – and the amount of damage that can be done in that time is mind-boggling. Three quarters of those breaches are tied to the mismanagement or theft of user credentials. And the cost of these breaches
PINCKNEY - Pinckney Community Schools will become the latest Cyber Range Hub - and the only one connected to a high school in Michigan - with its Grand Opening on Dec. 7. The Pinckney Cyber Training Institute will provide high school and college students as well as I.T. professionals a site to take cyber security
ROYAL OAK - Justin Coffey, the Microsoft Solutions Manager for Red Level, talks about cyberattacks on this episode of M2 TechCast. Coffey said cyberattacks are real and businesses need to protect themselves from the bad guys who want to steal their intellectual property, hold them for ransomeware and other mayhem. The SBA estimates nearly half
ROYAL OAK - Cybersecurity expert Dan Lohrmann explains how the Dedicated Denial of Service attack that in October brought down large sections of the Internet on the U.S. East and West Coasts was orchestrated by hackers using a botnet connected to a variety of dumb and unprotected appliances on the so-called Internet of Things. Until
