New hacks, new defenses: Latest tips to protect against data breaches

Protecting yourself from hackers and data breaches requires constant vigilance. Last year’s tips don’t necessarily hold up to this year’s attacks. The reality is this: cyber criminals are constantly testing new ways to beat the system, requiring new defenses and evolving tactics to stay out of harm’s way.
With online security breaches more common than ever, here’s what you should know to protect yourself in 2017.

Don’t expect the government to protect you

Once upon a time, the conventional wisdom in corporate IT departments was to keep breaches from the public. The assumption was that revealing a hack would inspire copycat attacks, reward cyber crime, and cause unnecessary panic. Plus, technologists assumed victims wouldn’t know what to do with the information anyway.
Things started to change in 2002 when California became the first state in the nation to pass a security breach notification law. With this law, companies holding private information about California residents were required to notify those customers if they even suspected a security breach.

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