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Verizon’s report highlights four specific cyber challenges that have emerged this year as a result of the pandemic: the continued increase in human error, the focus on stolen credential-related hacking, the spike in the use of ransomware, and phishing … Continue reading Insights from Verizon’s COVID-19 Breach Landscape Report: Working From Home (WFH) leads to greater vulnerability
Verizon has recently released its 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, an analysis of over 150,000 security incidents to assess how the overall threat landscape is shifting and where and how bad actors — the bad guys behind any security incident –… Continue reading Key trends and developments: 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigation
Phishing attacks don’t show any sign of slowing down. Per its 2019 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report, PhishLabs found that total phishing volume rose 40.9 percent over the course of 2018. These attacks targeted a range of organizations, esp… Continue reading 6 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Protect Against Them
From a creepy Airbnb incident to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, Threatpost editors break down the top privacy and security stories for the week ended May 10. Continue reading News Wrap: Facebook Regulation, Verizon DBIR, Hidden Airbnb Cameras
Over the past two weeks readers have pointed KrebsOnSecurity to no fewer than three different healthcare providers that failed to provide the most basic care to protect their patients’ records online. Only one of the three companies — the subject of today’s story — required users to be logged in order to view all patient records.
A week ago I heard from Troy Mursch, an IT consultant based in Las Vegas. A big fan of proactive medical testing, Mursch said he’s been getting his various lab results reviewed annually for the past two years with the help of a company based in Frisco, Texas called True Health Diagnostics. Continue reading Website Flaw Let True Health Diagnostics Users View All Medical Records
With the proliferation of shadowy black markets on the so-called “darknet” — hidden crime bazaars that can only be accessed through special software that obscures one’s true location online — it has never been easier for disgruntled employees to harm their current or former employer. At least, this is the fear driving a growing stable of companies seeking technical solutions to detect would-be insiders. Continue reading Rise of Darknet Stokes Fear of The Insider
Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a division of the telecommunications giant that gets called in to help organizations respond to some of the world’s largest data breaches, is reeling from its own data breach involving the theft and resale of customer data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Continue reading Crooks Steal, Sell Verizon Enterprise Customer Data