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 August 22, 2014
Cyber criminals can strike your organization without ever touching your systems directly Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a hack targeting a contractor who performs many of its background checks that exposed the data of at least 25,000 government workers. Among the stolen data is a bevy of highly personal and […]
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 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 […]
By erik on April 11, 2014
Forgetting this key ingredient can sink your crisis communications efforts Heavy social media users probably noticed the recent HootSuite outage which left many, including us, unable to access the popular utility during the evening hours. Having any service you use regularly to do business go down is a big deal, and even more so considering […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on April 2, 2014
Example of how the cybersecurity issues of others can quickly become your own As cybercrime becomes ever more lucrative, hackers are seeking to attack specific targets in any way possible. In a reminder of the reality that, even if your systems are secure, there are ways for criminals to target your customers from other angles, […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on February 28, 2014
Government steps in to help contractors running critical infrastructure secure their systems Experts have been warning for some time that hackers from criminal organizations and various nation-states with whom we don’t see eye-to-eye are targeting critical infrastructure, including power, water and nuclear systems, here in the States. Recognizing the lack of understanding and preparedness among […]
By Jonathan & Erik Bernstein on February 21, 2014
Cyber criminals hit University of Maryland Despite a recent doubling in IT security staff, personal data including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and university ID numbers belonging to nearly 310,000 individuals was stolen from the University of Maryland’s computer systems. In response, University President Wallace Loh (and, you can bet, his crisis management […]
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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