Our cybersecurity 'industry best practices' keep allowing breaches
The fact that the Colonial Pipeline is slowly getting back online and replenishing the gas supply in the Southeastern United States does not diminish the financial loss and sense of vulnerability that...
View ArticleDespite industry best practices, there will always be security breaches
The recent article by Allen Gwinn demonstrates a gross lack of understanding of the fundamentals of cybersecurity. The title specifically refers to “industry best practices” which Gwinn defines with a...
View ArticleMcDonalds says data breach targeted South Korea and Taiwan operations
McDonald’s said that it was the target of a data breach affecting its markets in South Korea and Taiwan.The burger chain told The Hill in a statement that it worked with third parties to conduct an...
View ArticleCarnival Cruise says customer data exposed in breach
Carnival Cruise says customer and employee data may have been exposed in a data breach in March. Carnival spokesperson Roger Frizzell told The Hill in a statement Friday that the company detected an...
View ArticleT-Mobile CEO apologizes for breach that compromised data of 50 million people
T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert on Friday announced that the hacker behind the recent breach of the company that compromised the information of around 50 million individuals had used “brute force” in the...
View ArticleMassachusetts attorney general announces investigation into T-Mobile data breach
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) on Tuesday announced that her office is undertaking an investigation into the recent data breach of T-Mobile that impacted more than 50 million...
View ArticleFTC warns health apps to notify consumers impacted by data breaches
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Wednesday that a decade-old rule on health data breaches applies to apps that handle sensitive health information, warning these companies to comply. The...
View ArticleUK to launch investigation after breach reveals Afghan interpreters'...
The U.K. government is launching an investigation after a data breach revealed the identities of Afghan interpreters.Defense Minister Ben Wallace on Tuesday informed parliament of the investigation and...
View ArticleNeiman Marcus notifying 4.6M customers of data breach
Department store Neiman Marcus announced Friday that it was in the process of notifying 4.6 million online customers that some of their data had been compromised as part of a data breach that took...
View ArticleDOJ to go after government contractors that fail to report breaches
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday it will go after federal contractors that fail to report cybersecurity incidents to the U.S. government.“Today, we are launching a Civil Cyber Fraud...
View ArticleRobinhood says information on millions of customers stolen in data breach
Trading platform Robinhood disclosed late Monday that an “unauthorized party” had stolen the data of over 7 million customers as part of a major data breach.According to a blog published on Robinhood’s...
View ArticleGoDaddy says information on 1.2 million customers exposed in data breach
Internet domain host GoDaddy on Monday disclosed a recent data breach that the company said impacted the customer data of around 1.2 million individuals. In a document filed to the Securities and...
View ArticleData on thousands of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients breached
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) announced Wednesday that it had been the target of a “cybersecurity incident” that compromised patient information.In a notice posted online, PPLA reported that an...
View ArticleIll cyber winds: Companies and agencies must try harder to protect information
China’s decision to classify online data based on its importance to national security and public interest is an implicit nod to both the growing threat posed by malicious hackers and Beijing’s...
View ArticleFlorida hospital system suffers data breach, including medical information
A Florida-based hospital system revealed on Saturday it suffered a data breach that included the personal and medical information of patients and staff.In a statement, Broward Health said hackers...
View ArticleWashington state agency says data of hundreds of thousands of professionals...
The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) announced Friday that it had detected irregular activity on one of its online systems last month and that the personal data of professional licensees...
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