Data breach
California Proposal for Mandatory Cyber Insurance
Will California’s bill to force cyber insurance be a harbinger for the rest of the U.S.? On Feb. 15, California Assemblyman Ed Chau, representing the Western San Gabriel Valley (near President Nixon’s ...
IoT Device Attacks, FCC Fines Mobile Carriers, Let’s Encrypt Certificate Bug
In episode 111 for March 9th 2020: A new report shows that attacks on Internet of Things devices are on the rise, the FCC fines major mobile carriers for selling users’ location ...
Data breach: U.S. retailer J.Crew reveals 2019 security incident to customers
J.Crew suffered a credential stuffing attack that may have compromised the personal data of customers, the U.S. clothing retailer disclosed earlier this week. Fraudulent activity was apparently noticed last spring, but the ...
Virgin Media Admits Failing to Secure Online Database with Info on 900,000 Customers
Virgin Media admitted it left an unsecured database online containing personal data for about 900,000 customers, including their phone numbers, names, and physical addresses. When people hear about data breaches, they usually ...
T-Mobile Suffers a Data Breach, Again
T-Mobile has begun notifying customers of a security breach that might affect an undetermined number of them, possibly revealing their names and addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, rate plans and features, and ...
5 Cloud Security Challenges Facing Enterprises Today
Recent advances in cloud data storage capabilities have changed the way many organizations handle data and conduct business. While the expansion of cloud data represents new opportunities for growth, these organizations will ...
Breach Prevention is so 2010: Now is the Time to Protect Data Itself
The trend towards digital transformation means companies are using and monetizing data more and more. Today, there is not only more data, data is also far more valuable due to the constant ...
Cathay Pacific slammed for security failures following hack which exposed 9.4 million people worldwide
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Cathay Pacific for “a number of basic security inadequacies” which resulted in hackers stealing the data of 9.4 million people worldwide – including 111,578 ...
Lessons Learned from 2019’s Biggest Data Breaches
With more than 5,000 data breaches and over 7 billion records exposed, 2019 was the worst year on record for breach activity. According to research from Risk Based Security, the number of ...
Keeping Customer Data Secure in the Cloud: 5 Things to Know
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