Collaborate Disseminate
From IBM: IBM Security today released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report,1 showing the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last 3 years. Detection and esc… Continue reading IBM Report: Half of Breached Organizations Unwilling to Increase Security Spend Despite Soaring Breach Costs
From IT-Online: IBM Security’s newly-released annual Cost of a Data Breach Report says that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4,45-million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last three years. Detection… Continue reading Half of breached organisations unwilling to up security spend
An unknown party or parties who created a leak site with nude photos and medical records of a well-known plastic surgeon’s patients have uploaded more of his patients’ photos and records. In what was their third update to the leak site sinc… Continue reading More plastic surgery patients have their nude photos and information leaked
As those trying to monitor and analyze the massive MOVEit breach are already aware, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (“TIAA”) provided university faculty retirement benefits to a number of colleges and universities…. Continue reading Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America notifying 2,630,717 after PBI alerts them to MOVEit breach
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: VirusTotal today issued a mea culpa, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees. T… Continue reading VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users
Earlier this week, DataBreaches reported that two plastic surgery practices in California had both suffered cyberattacks. When the doctors did not pay ransom demands, attackers leaked nude patient pictures and patient info. One attack was by AlphV (Bla… Continue reading Now a third plastic surgery practice has nude patient photos leaked
Paul Kunert reports: Norwegian mining and recycling giant TOMRA says it has isolated tech systems as it deals with an “extensive cyberattack.” TOMRA has multiple divisions that focus on areas including waste and recycling solutions, metal s… Continue reading Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following ‘extensive cyberattack’
James Rundle reports: Payroll services provider UKG has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a cyberattack in 2021, capping a significant piece of litigation that emerged from the incident. A ransomware strike in December 2021 forced p… Continue reading Payroll Services Provider UKG Agrees to $6 Million Settlement in Data-Breach Lawsuit
Rosie Talaga reports: QuickBlox, a software development framework used in telemedicine and finance, was found to have several critical security flaws, according to a joint study from computer and network security research firms Check Point Research and… Continue reading Millions of personal records unprotected in flawed telemedicine application software
First Criminal Case Involving Attack on a Smart Contract Operated by Decentralized Exchange Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Chad Plantz, the Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego Field Office of Hom… Continue reading Former Security Engineer For International Technology Company Arrested For Defrauding Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange