I admit it: I absolutely love online shopping. In my mind, it is infinitely easier to search for and buy gifts for my friends and family without even getting out of my bed – especially around the Christmas holiday season! While this has the benefit of not dealing with long lines, traffic jams, and gigantic masses of humanity, there is one risk I have to watch out for: my own online privacy.
Topic Categories: Privacy
Written by
Kevin Hayes
Kevin Hayes is the Director of Information Security at Wayne State University, responsible for the management of IT security controls and products, responding to information security incidents big and small, and providing security policy and strategy guidance to customers, system administrators, and management. Kevin holds both CISSP and CISM certifications and can be heard talking about security issues on Channel 4 WDIV-TV and Detroit public radio station WDET-FM.
If you ask any IT professional about the onslaught of recent cyber attacks and hacks, you will eventually get to the part where you learn what's causing it all. While Russian hackers and overweight basement dwellers will be probably be brought up, what you might not hear is that these attacks succeed due to poor computer security practices by people like you and me. Both the Target data breach and the 2016 DNC Email hack happened because somebody simply clicked on an email link without thinking - scary stuff!
Topic Categories: Security
Written by
Kevin Hayes
Kevin Hayes is the Director of Information Security at Wayne State University, responsible for the management of IT security controls and products, responding to information security incidents big and small, and providing security policy and strategy guidance to customers, system administrators, and management. Kevin holds both CISSP and CISM certifications and can be heard talking about security issues on Channel 4 WDIV-TV and Detroit public radio station WDET-FM.
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