By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on February 24, 2015
A rare corporate apology done right The Anthem hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 80 million customers, put the healthcare provider in an ugly situation. Not only were its own computer security team’s credentials stolen and used to access private information, but it was revealed that the data was not encrypted. […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on January 5, 2015
As long as cyber attacks remain profitable, hackers will be in business We said 2014 was the “Year of the Cyber Attack”, but as you can see from our recent blogging 2015 is already making a serious run for the title. The latest attack to come to light is hitting users through Microsoft Office, and […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on January 2, 2015
Reduce the risk of employee error allowing hackers through your security with training and education You can have the best security systems in the world, but that all goes “POOF” if an employees allows the bad guys into the bank vault. Well, cyber crime is no different, and the scary thing is that, unlike with […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on December 31, 2014
Doing physical damage with virtual attacks Hackers aren’t only after corporate secrets, customer data, and credit card numbers. Some attackers seek to create real, physical damage via the net as well. Take this report, from a BBC News article: A blast furnace at a German steel mill suffered “massive damage” following a cyber attack on […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on September 20, 2014
Would your organization have a plan in place? The Target hack has been dethroned as the largest known data breach after less than a year following Home Depot’s revelation that some 56 million credit and debit cards were exposed to hackers due to an assault via customized malware. The Wall Street Journal’s Robin Sidel reports: […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on September 3, 2014
Strong statement to kick things off, but it was missing something Home Depot may be joining the ranks of Target, P.F. Changs, and many others after announcing that it is looking into “unusual activity” involves the security of its data. While we give them due credit for not sitting mum on the topic, and coming […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on August 14, 2014
Businesses large and small were targets of data theft It seems every time we hear about a record-setting cyber crime, news of an even bigger one rolls around the corner. Cue the latest revelation – that a collection of stolen Internet credentials, including some 1.2 billion username/password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 30, 2014
Is your iDevice secure? The cyber crises keep rolling in, the latest being a new ransomware attack that affects Apple devices – iPhones, iPads and Macs. Making use of the “Find My iPhone”, “Find My iPad”, and “Find My Mac” apps, hackers have found a way to access the cloud-based controls for others’ devices and […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on May 21, 2014
Retailer still feeling the pain of holiday data breach A full five months after its enormous data breach, Target is still scrambling for ways to convince shoppers to come back. The big red retailer’s latest move was to give CEO Gregg Steinhafel the boot, allegedly to bring in new leadership that will, “help restore consumer […]
Jonathan L. Bernstein, founder and Chairman of Bernstein Crisis Management, Inc. has more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of crisis management – crisis response, vulnerability assessment, planning, training and simulations.[Read more ...]
Erik Bernstein is president of Bernstein Crisis Management. Erik started with BCM in 2009 as a writer and subsequently became social media manager for the consultancy itself as well as for a number of BCM clients before moving to the president position.
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