data theft
Remote Insider Data Theft Worries Financial Industry
As the pandemic rages on, more companies are concerned about the growing risk of insider theft Remote work has changed the cybersecurity landscape and has required IT and security staff to rethink ...
Maze Ransomware Operators Claim Fairfax County Public Schools as Latest Victim
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is the latest US school division to be hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted some of its systems. “We currently believe we may have been victimized ...
More than 230 Million US Health Records Have Been Stolen or Lost in Past Decade
The data breach phenomenon has been plaguing the US healthcare sector for more than a decade, with a 2,733% increase between 2009 and 2019, according to a PrivacyAffairs study. Through analysis of ...
Carnival Reveals It Detected a Ransomware Attack on Its Systems
British-American cruise operator Carnival Corporation & plc revealed it had detected a ransomware attack on some of its IT systems. In a regulatory filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
More Than a Tenth of Ransomware Attacks Now Involve Data Theft
Research into recent ransomware submissions revealed that more than a tenth of crypto-malware infections now involve some element of data theft. In the second quarter of 2020, ID Ransomware received 100,001 submissions ...
Google Removes 25 Malicious Google Play Apps Stealing Facebook Login Credentials
Last month, Google removed 25 Android apps from its Google Play Store after discovering they were stealing users’ Facebook account credentials. The malicious apps, identified by security company Evina, appeared to be ...
Around 9 Million easyJet Customers’ Details Stolen in Hacking Incident
British low-cost airline group easyJet revealed that an hacking incident had exposed approximately nine million customers’ information. On May 19, easyJet issued a “Notice of cyber security incident” in which it revealed ...
New Treacherous Tricks of Ransomware Authors
Ransomware operators are giving their sketchy repertoire an overhaul. These attacks used to be about unauthorized data encryption and now they are adding data theft to the mix. As a result, not ...
Classic Facebookery: Zuckerberg, Harms Suffered
via Kate Cox, come this well-crafted piece at Ars Technica, detailing new defensive machinations underway by Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), and (as a matter of course - Mark Zuckerberg)... "Facebook's $5 billion ...
Why Is The FTC Allowing The Harvesting Of Kids Data?
via David Uberti, writing at Vice News, comes word of the harvesting of children's personal data, of which, the FTC is perfectly fine with... Something's terribly wrong with this scenario. '“Over the ...
