News Worth Noting:

• UnitedHealth Breach May Impact "Substantial Portion" of Americans - UnitedHealth disclosed it experienced a data breach this past February that may affect a "substantial portion" of Americans.

• IRS Informs Wealthy Taxpayers On Data Leak - The IRS has started to notify individuals that their data was leaked by a former IRS contractor.

• How Cellphone Carriers Track You - CNET reports on the ways cellphone carriers track your personal information and the ways you can stop them from doing so.

• Ring Customers Receive $5.6M in Breach Settlement - The FTC will pay Ring customers more than $5.6 million after the agency determined the company "allowed employees and contractors to access consumers’ private videos and failed to implement security protections, enabling hackers to take control of consumers’ accounts, cameras, and videos.”

• How Romance Scam Victims Turn Into Accomplices - 
  CBS News reports on the growing number of romance scams, and how previous victims are unknowingly further facilitating the cyber scam.

Credential Stuffing Attacks

In this on-demand webinar, learn how to protect your accounts from credential stuffing attacks.

BlackCloak VPN Questions

Have questions about our VPN? Consult this guide to learn more about the BlackCloak VPN service.

Best Cyber Practices for Traveling Securely

The weather is getting better and summer is right around the corner, which means the travel season will soon be in full swing.

Vacations are meant to be a time to relax, but for some high ranking executives and other employees, there still may be a time where they need to fire up one of their devices to address an issue at work.

For chief information security offices and other security professionals, this could cause a bit of a headache. They will not be able to see what their executives and employees are doing when they are away. This could become a problem, especially in instances where a work device may be stolen, or a person connects a work device to an unsecured network.

This blog post will lay out the security risks executives and employees face when they work while traveling, and measures CISOs can recommend and implement to ensure their organization is guarded by risk.

What Every High-Net-Worth Individual Needs to Know About Router and Firewall Vulnerabilities

The sanctity of personal cybersecurity cannot be overstated, especially for high-net-worth individuals who often find themselves in the crosshairs of sophisticated cybercriminals. The first line of defense in protecting your digital domain lies within the integrity of your routers and firewalls. These devices, which quietly underpin the security of your entire network, are not as impervious to attacks as one might hope. In this blog post, learn about the vulnerabilities that plague routers and firewalls, and the impact these could have on your personal cybersecurity.

BlackCloak Introduces Expansion of Our Incident Response as a Service

BlackCloak is proud to announce the expansion of our Incident Response as a Service, designed to offer rapid, expert-led privacy and cyber security incident response to corporate clients who have other key employees targeted in cyber or privacy attacks on an ad hoc basis.

BlackCloak on the Road

BlackCloak is attending events in San Francisco, Dallas and Columbus this May, including RSA 2024. If you or your colleagues are attending any of these events, please visit us and say hi.

• RSA Conference 2024 - San Francisco: May 6-9
• Data Connectors - Atlanta: May 16
• 2024 Central Ohio InfoSec Summit - Columbus: May 23-24