Posts in Cybersecurity
Opkalla Partner Highlight: RapidScale

RapidScale is a global provider of managed cloud computing and application delivery solutions for the SMB and mid-enterprise markets. RapidScale offers a unique co-managed cloud approach that complements any organization’s current IT efforts. With a global presence, a 100 G based enterprise-grade infrastructure, and a team of highly knowledgeable cloud experts, RapidScale specializes in cloud-based solutions that solve common IT challenges through the "as-a-service" model. 

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Five Questions To Ask Your MSSP

According to a recent report, the global Managed Security Services market is expected to grow to $34 Billion by 2022. Due to the increased complexity and focused attacks from domestic and foreign entities, organizations (at an increasing rate) now consider outsourcing their security operations to service providers who focus solely on their protection.

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Imposter steals two million dollars from local Charlotte suburb

In 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.

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Data Breaches by the Numbers

According 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

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Data Breach at Capital One - What happened and how do I prevent a data breach?

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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