FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 408, Brad Davis on Social Engineering for Data Protection
CrowdStrike recently published its 2025 Global Threat Report, which among other conclusions, emphasized that social engineering tactics aimed to steal credentials grew an astounding 442% in the second half of 2024....more
As part of Data Privacy Awareness Week, Ward and Smith is spotlighting the most common types of data breaches that businesses encounter. In Part 1, we explored the industries most vulnerable to cyberattacks, highlighting the...more
Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more
Cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence have become more sophisticated as bad actors utilize machine learning to analyze vulnerabilities, automate exploits, and outpace traditional security measures. Through the use...more
Retool, a software development firm offering modular code for customizable enterprise software, recently notified 27 customers that a threat actor had accessed their accounts. The attacker was able to navigate through...more
CYBERSECURITY - World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook for 2023 Is Bleak - Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but remember that I am only the messenger. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global...more
Dark Reading reports that thousands of college and university students are being targeted by cyber-attackers who are using a legitimate domain to impersonate Instagram and steal credentials of the users. The attack is able to...more
Buzzy brokerage app Robinhood Markets is the latest victim of a cyberhack, disclosing earlier this week that the personal information of some 7 million users was exposed. According to Bloomberg, the “intruder made off with...more
New dictionary words have been formed to describe online scams. Phishing, one that everyone knows by now, is when a scammer uses a pretext in an email to get someone to click on a link or attachment in the email to deploy...more
If you have been following Verizon’s annual data breach investigation reports like I have over the years, you get excited when the new one comes out. If you have never read the report, now’s your chance, as the 2021 report...more
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Management (VA) has announced that it is notifying approximately 46,000 veterans that their personal information was compromised when hackers were able to access an online...more
Attorneys are well aware of the ways in which corporate clients are increasingly conducting their business and affairs electronically. A business may routinely place orders with trusted vendors via e-mail, rely on the...more
The FCPA Compliance Report is the longest running podcast in compliance. In this episode I have back noted data protection expert Brad Davis. Our topic is data protection and Davis’ advocacy of social engineering as the first...more
Risk Management Question: October is cyber security awareness month. What steps are you taking to avoid common Internet scams? The Issue: Hackers and their exploits are growing more sophisticated by the day. Avoiding their...more
Beazley has published a report outlining data breaches in the first nine months of 2017. The report notes that the highest cause of a data breach in 2017 so far are unintended disclosures, which accounted for 41 percent of...more
Any system is only as strong as its weakest link. If your employees aren’t up to date on their cybersecurity hygiene, then it doesn’t matter how much money you spend on technological defences—there’s a gap in your protection....more