Suffolk Computer Consultants, Inc. Blog

Well, it’s official: out of anyone who claims that 2016 was a rough year, Yahoo had the worst. The technology company was discovered to be the target of two of the largest data breaches on record.

There’s no doubt that Samsung took a hit with its exploding Galaxy Note 7, but there never seemed to be a truly definitive answer as to why it exploded in the first place. To find that answer, a manufacturing engineering company dissected the device. What they found explains a lot.

Your firewall and virus protections could be fully updated, your network sealed tight, your privacy and permissions measures comprehensive--and you could still be vulnerable to security breaches. What’s more, this vulnerability would come from the single element of your security solution that can’t be updated with a few clicks: your end users.

If someone kicked in your business’s front door, swaggered over to your data storage and uploaded all of your private data, it’s almost certain that you’d want to press charges against them. If someone were to do the same thing, but digitally, you’d likely want to do the same to them. However, prosecuting cyber crime is much easier said than done.

If you’re a user of the ridesharing app Uber, you might be surprised to know just how much the company knows about you, thanks to their updated privacy policy. For example, the app will now continue to track a rider’s position even after the ride has ended and the rider has left the car.