databreach

Fraud and account take-over cost companies billions of dollars every year. Many of these successful attacks are the result of credential stuffing, a vulnerability created by users’ reuse of passwords across systems ...

As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we take a closer look at what a social engineering attack entails and how to spot them ...

Bad news for XKCD user forum members - all 562,000 of them - reports Sergiu Gatlan (writing for Bleeping Computer) in a blog post on September 3rd; as email addresses, user names ...

Earlier I wrote about the importance of patching, or more accurately the importance of transferring the need to patch (& the associated risk) to someone else by using their cloud security service ...

Capital One Financial Corporation just disclosed a cyber security incident that impacts about 100 million people in the U.S. and 6 million in Canada. The customer data was illegally accessed sometime between ...

Perhaps it’s too melodramatic to claim that the debate over how to define a data breach “rages on” because we haven’t seen bodies flying out of windows yet, but it is a ...

When you purchase a ticket for a flight, be it domestic or international, most are thinking of the purpose of that ticket: to travel from point A to point B. Those invested ...

State data breach notification laws had two primary aims in mind. The first was to potentially embarrass organizations to improve their data security by forcing them to disclose certain data breaches publicly ...

CoinRail, a small cryptocurrency exchange service based in South Korea, reported on Sunday that it fell victim to a cyberattack and publicly confirmed it on Twitter. As a result, bitcoin prices collapsed ...