Collaborate Disseminate
The UK’s National Health Service, one of the highest-profile victims of last year’s devastating WannaCry ransomware attack, has pledged to phase out fax machines from its trusts by 2020. NHS made headlines in 2017 when its entire fleet of h… Continue reading Star WannaCry victim NHS to ban fax machines by 2020
Question-and-answer website Quora has issued an urgent warning to 100 million of its users, notifying them that hackers now have their data as a result of a breach. “We are writing to let you know that we recently discovered that some user data w… Continue reading Hackers breach Quora to steal 100 million user accounts – if you were logged out, change your password now!
Marriot International has suffered what can be considered one of the largest data breaches in history, trailing only the 2013 Yahoo breach. The world’s largest hotel chain said some 500 million customer records were compromised.
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Phishing remains a key attack vector for bad actors to compromise not just individual user accounts, but also to establish a foothold in the entire infrastructure of a given organization. This is possible because attackers know one thing very well… Continue reading Study Ranks Healthcare and Insurance as Worst Custodians of Personal Data
Uber’s widely publicized data leak from two years ago has finally resulted in a fine from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. The penalty would have been 203 times the amount if the leak had occurred this year, after the GDPR era took… Continue reading UK fine against Uber for 2016 data breach would be 200 times bigger in 2018
In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware took copious amounts of data hostage and demanded hefty sums in exchange for the decryption keys. The contagion, allegedly the work of North Korean hackers, spread like wildfire, infecting countless systems wor… Continue reading Ransomware – A Growing Menace for Healthcare Providers
Amid mounting criticism from regulators and users over its data protection practices, Facebook is extending an olive branch to the ethical hacker community, increasing its bug bounty rewards while decreasing the technical overhead. White hats can earn … Continue reading Facebook to pay ethical hackers $40,000 for reporting a single account-takeover bug
BYOD programs have had a mixed track record over the years. Some say they increase mobility, flexibility, efficiency and collaboration, leading to a more productive workforce overall. Other businesses still shun the practice outright.
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Online payment fraud losses will reach $48 billion annually by 2023, up from the $22 billion in losses projected for 2018, a new study from Juniper Research has found. Juniper’s new research claims that a critical driver behind losses from eComme… Continue reading Synthetic identity fraud to drive $48 billion in annual losses by 2023 – Juniper Research
Employees’ cybersecurity habits are bad and getting worse. New research illustrates a workforce less committed to security best practices, despite an increased focus on cybersecurity awareness in the workplace.
The post Lax Employee Cybersec… Continue reading Lax Employee Cybersecurity Habits Pose Growing Danger to Businesses