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Evizone is your solution to GDPR, the EU’s draconian data protection update

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE The European Union is about to make one of the most radical changes in data protection ever seen by a government, and it will affect any company collecting information on European individuals – even if they have no business on the continent. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) […]

Government and the tech industry must cooperate to encourage encryption and protect society

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE Given the string of high-profile and costly cyberattacks that have taken place over the last couple of years, you’d think everyone would see urgency in encouraging security measures like encryption. After all, everyone loses when credit scores and bank accounts get hacked. And yet, the U.S. government has raised […]

Yahoo hack worse than expected – again

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE Exactly a year ago this month, Yahoo made a stunning revelation. They had already announced in September that 500 million email accounts had been hacked in 2014. But then in October they announced that over 1 billion email accounts had also been breached in 2013. This gave the tech […]

Global firm offering cybersecurity advice gets hacked

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE A major global accounting firm, offers their clients a slew of services. One of them is the development of cybersecurity strategies. According to their website, they help “organizations prevent cyberattacks and protect valuable assets.” They “focus on establishing effective controls around the organization’s most sensitive assets and balancing the […]

Government doesn’t pay nearly enough attention to cybersecurity

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE The government doesn’t pay nearly enough attention to cybersecurity, according to some very good sources. Fortune Magazine reports that last month, a quarter of the members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council resigned, citing “specific shortfalls in the administration’s approach to cybersecurity”. The article continues: “The […]

Hackers stole your social security number – and 143 million others

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE Equifax is the largest consumer credit reporting agency in the United States and collects sensitive information on nearly a billion people worldwide. It’s a publicly traded company with annual revenue of over $3 billion and it has been in business for over a century. With its experience and responsibility, […]

Phishing dupes Canadian university out of $11.8 million

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE When private companies fall for the tricks of cybercriminals, it’s their investors who stand to lose the most and who must demand accountability. Yet when public institutions like schools and hospitals are scammed, taxpayers are left picking up the bill. The latest example happened at Alberta’s MacEwan University. CBC […]

Post-delivery modification: another nail in email’s coffin

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE The security firm Mimecast has discovered a new email security flaw that is truly terrifying. The threat – named ROPEMAKER – is not thought to have been used by cybercriminals to date. Yet its discovery alone means that any email you receive could harm your computer and files – […]

Could a cyberattack send your stock price crashing?

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE A 2015 Harvard Business Review article argued that data breeches at publicly traded companies don’t generally hurt stock prices. The argument went that the damage from hacks can be hard to quantify or understand, so shareholders only “react to breach news when it has direct impact on business operations” […]

A (cyber) war with North Korea has already been waged for years

LEARN MORE                     FREE TRIAL                          CONTACT EVIZONE For a country with notoriously limited internet access, North Korea has been surprisingly aggressive with their cyberattacks over the last couple of years. Although a geopolitical storm is brewing between the United States and the Hermit Kingdom, a digital battle has already been fought for some time. Western governments […]