Data encryption
Law Firm Seyfarth Shaw Hit by Apparent Ransomware Attack
Seyfarth Shaw fell victim to a crippling malware attack over the weekend, the global law firm disclosed earlier this week. According to an official statement, unauthorized activity was detected by the company’s ...
A Natural Law for Digital Data
Digital data provides the strength and vitality of the Information Age. Bits have as much, if not more, value than comparable assets in the physical world. Losing control of proprietary or critical ...
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 ...
IBM Adds Encryption Everywhere Capabilities to the Mainframe
IBM today unveiled a z15 mainframe that takes advantage of additional processing horsepower to create Trusted Data Objects that allow organizations to employ Privacy Passports technology to encrypt data across a hybrid ...
North Carolina’s Orange County Hit by Third Ransomware Attack in Six Years
Orange County in North Carolina suffered its third ransomware infection in six years, the local government announced on its website on Monday. The attack, probably stemming from a phishing email, a very ...
Tech companies unite against Australia’s encrypted data demands
The US is not the only country asking tech giants to allow access to encrypted customer data for fear of terror attacks. In the following weeks, Australia’s parliament will cast votes on ...
Highly Targeted Ransomware SamSam Earned Its Creator $6 Million
A ransomware threat called SamSam that’s known for crippling IT systems in hospitals, schools and government organizations has made many more victims than previously believed. Security researchers from Sophos worked with cryptocurrency ...
Hackers Steal More Than 3TB of Data from Vevo
A group of hackers called OurMine has leaked 3.12TB of files belonging to video-hosting service Vevo. The files were obtained after hackers compromised an employee’s account on Okta, a single sign-on service ...
