Business Advice | Incognito IT | Expert IT Services & Consulting

There’s A Good Chance You’re On This Hacked Passwords List

Security researchers have stumbled across a vast treasure trove of hacked user accounts residing in a completely unprotected database online. The database contains more than 560 million user names, email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, physical addresses and more. The database was discovered via the Shodan search engine, which searches the web for open ports and

HP Keylogger Malware Gets Patch Fix

Sometimes, legitimate companies accidentally create malware. That’s certainly the case in this latest example. It was an innocent mistake, but some debugging code was inadvertently left in the code of an audio driver used by more than two dozen models of HP laptops. As a result, unknown to the users of those machines, the audio

IBM Finds Malware On Some Of Its USB Thumb Drives

Does your company use IMB Storwize? If you’re not sure what that is, then you probably don’t. It’s the company’s Big Data storage system, and when you purchase it, you get USB flash drives with initialization tools and installation files. Unfortunately, IBM has recently discovered that some of the flash drives they’ve been shipping out

WannaCry Ransomware Runs Rampant – New Variants Found

This past Friday, a new ransomware threat burst onto the scene globally in what was described as an attack “unprecedented in its scale.” Before the original version was stopped by a young, anonymous digital security expert, it had brought England’s National Health Service to its knees. It forced medical staff to resort to keeping paper

HIPAA Fines Continue; New Focus On Signed Business Associate Agreements

Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services made headlines by issuing more than a dozen hefty fines to big companies that deal with Protected Health Information for noncompliance with HIPAA regulations. That trend has continued into 2017, but with a new twist. The agency is expanding the scope and scale of their investigations.

Password Thefts Have Not Prompted Users To Change Password Habits

The newest big problem with data security is the same as the old big problem with data security. It’s the users. Specifically, it’s the fact that most people don’t bother to change their passwords more than once a year, if that frequently. Data security is a major headache for all business owners, no matter the