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Happy New Year to you and welcome to the Roaring 20's (or whatever this decade will be called)! As we enter the next decade, here are a few predictions for the coming year and the remainder of the decade:
The Cyber War will rage on and there will be a larger impacted event than ever before (like an election). This will change organizations (all sizes) from the “We should do” to the “We must do” for cyber security.
Read MoreIn a local suburb of Charlotte, Cabarrus County is dealing with more than $2 million in funds missing that intended for a new school construction project. A hacker, posing as the construction company for the project, sent a fake notice to the county requesting a change in bank account where the funds should be routed to and it was done.
Read MoreAccording to Wikipedia, there have been 292 data breaches since 2004 where over 30,000 records were breached. Just to name a few in 2019:
Capital One - 106 million records stolen
Facebook - 540 million records stolen
First American Corporation - 885 million records stolen
Quest Diagnostics - 12 million records stolen
As you probably have already seen on any news source by now, Capital One announced yesterday that 100 Million!!! people were affected by the latest data breach.
This includes information such as credit scores, balances, SSNs,, bank-account numbers and credit-card numbers. In addition, other information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, credit scores and other financial data were also potentially stolen as a part of the breach.
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