Halting Hackers on the Holidays

Halting Hackers on the Holidays
Taking some simple precautions can help you avoid being a victim of fraud when shopping online or using email. PhotoMIX-company/pixabay
Gary Miliefsky
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As we wind down National Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, we count the breaches and total personally identifiable information records lost at more than 13 billion since 2013.

We’ve all heard about Facebook losing millions of records, and Google forgetting to disclose their breach for many months and then announcing they will shut down Google Plus as a result of the breach. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Gary Miliefsky
Gary Miliefsky
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Gary Miliefsky is a cybersecurity, breach prevention, and privacy expert. He is the CEO of Cyber Defense Media Group and a founding member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the National Information Security Group, and the OVAL advisory board of MITRE responsible for the CVE Program.
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