You’ve been hacked !! Now what ?

October 19, 2011/Terry Cutler/Comments Off on You’ve been hacked !! Now what ?
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You've been hacked !! Now what It’s 3:10 a.m. and your home phone rings.

The assistant security specialist in your global company is sorry to wake you but it couldn’t wait. You open your eyes and you already know: he has spotted what he is calling “highly” suspicious activity over the company network. Although they are working on the problem, the situation is expected to get worse. You get dressed and go to the office.

In the meantime, customer service representatives are reporting numerous complaints of unauthorized debits to their credit cards and banks, your customer service department is overloaded with irate customer calls and the backlog is mounting. What do we tell customers?

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Terry Cutler

I’m Terry Cutler, the creator of Internet Safety University, an educational system helping to defend corporations and individuals against growing cyber threats. I’m a federal government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the founder of Cyology Labs, a first-line security defence firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. In 2020, I wrote a bestselling book about the secrets of internet safety from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker. I’m a frequent contributor to National & Global media coverage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and social network dangers families and individuals face daily.