Marriott has disclosed a massive Starwood hotel data breach that may have impacted 500 million customers. The breach and unauthorized access to Starwood’s reservation network apparently stretched from 2014 through November of 2018. For approximately 327 million customers, the stolen information includes some combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred…
Learn MoreSmall and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are too small to be targeted by hackers Hackers use small businesses to get to the big businesses. If a hacker uses a cyber attack on your business as a stepping-stone to a larger attack, your partners are going to come after you big time. Small businesses are easy to…
Learn MoreACE IT Solutions is proud to announce GDPR consulting and compliance services for American businesses concerned about the impact of GDPR on their organizations. GDPR regulations, implemented in the EU on May 25, 2018, have had a significant impact on enterprise cybersecurity and data governance policies and practices beyond the European Union, particularly impacting global…
Learn MoreThe blame game starts as soon as the breach is detected. Do you blame the employee who clicked the phishing email link that launched the malware and implanted a rootkit? Do you blame the IT department at large or the CIO for not having the necessary security tools in place to prevent it? Do you…
Learn MoreYour cyber security strategy should be constructed of many layers. If your technology is managed by a managed services provider (MSP) or managed security services provider (MSSP) then you want to be sure they have put these crucial layers in place to secure your organization’s data. SIEM – Security Information and Event Management SIEM offers…
Learn MoreDid you know that websites experience an average of 58 attacks per day? That’s one cyberattack approximately every 25 minutes ACE IT Solutions is excited to announce our new partnership with SiteLock – the global leader in website security. Which means that our clients now have access to the best website security solutions the industry has…
Learn MoreThe SEC announced on September 26, that a Des Moines-based broker-dealer and investment adviser has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges related to its failures in cybersecurity policies and procedures surrounding a cyber intrusion that compromised personal information of thousands of customers. Voya Financial Advisors Inc. (VFA) is charged with violating the Safeguards Rule…
Learn MoreThe economic impact of cyber attacks is greater than it ever was. Your data is valuable incentive for hackers to exploit whatever weaknesses they can find and use that data for all kinds of nefarious gain. Thanks to the dark web, the information businesses collect, process, and exchange can be monetized more easily than ever…
Learn MoreThe British Airways breach, in which up to 380,000 website and mobile users’ payment card details were stolen, could have been prevented, according to researchers from the threat detection firm RiskIQ, who have shed new light on how the attackers pulled off the heist. It took hackers just 22 lines of code to get a hold…
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