Don’t Let Failing Banks Distract You from Cyber Threats

Don’t Let Failing Banks Distract You from Cyber Threats

Human beings and organizations suffer from a cognitive condition known as recency bias. Recency bias “is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones. It is the tendency to place too much emphasis on experiences that are freshest in your memory—even...
More Than 752,000 US Birth Certificates Leaked, New Orleans Declares a State of Emergency and More

More Than 752,000 US Birth Certificates Leaked, New Orleans Declares a State of Emergency and More

Over 752,000 applications for birth certificate copies were leaked,all because they were not protected with a password in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket. Long story short, plenty of personal information was divulged. The certificates were warehoused by an...
The Collateral Damage of a Social Profile Data Breach

The Collateral Damage of a Social Profile Data Breach

The previous installment in our series on the collateral damage, which a data breach can wreak upon individuals, we considered the profound possibilities of a credit card data breach.  This article reviews the potential damages that can occur with a social profile...
The Collateral Damage of a Geolocation Information Breach

The Collateral Damage of a Geolocation Information Breach

In our last article in the ThreatModeler series about collateral damage of various types of data breaches, we examined the potential damage that could occur if hackers made off with your online activities information. Now, we will explore what could happen to an...