Telehealth is healthcare industry’s biggest cybersecurity risk

While COVID-19 has proven the healthcare industry’s overall resilience, it has also increased its cybersecurity risk with new and emerging threats. The rapid adoption and onboarding of telehealth vendors led to a significantly increased digital f… Continue reading Telehealth is healthcare industry’s biggest cybersecurity risk

Capital One breach: Info on 106 million customers compromised, hacker arrested

Capital One, one of the largest banks in the United States by assets, has announced that it has suffered a massive data breach affecting the personal and financial information of some 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada. Simultaneously, the … Continue reading Capital One breach: Info on 106 million customers compromised, hacker arrested

SecurityScorecard launches Atlas, a questionnaire and evidence exchange platform

SecurityScorecard, the leader in cybersecurity ratings, announced the availability of Atlas, a questionnaire and evidence exchange platform that enables enterprises to easily manage, complete, and analyze cybersecurity questionnaires and evidence-based… Continue reading SecurityScorecard launches Atlas, a questionnaire and evidence exchange platform

SecurityScorecard launches Project Escher to help non-profits understand third party risk

SecurityScorecard, the leader in security ratings, announced the launch of Project Escher, which provides complimentary access to SecurityScorecard’s groundbreaking security rating platform to nonprofit organizations. Nonprofits will now be able to gau… Continue reading SecurityScorecard launches Project Escher to help non-profits understand third party risk

Industry reactions to Google’s €50 million GDPR violation fine

On 21 January 2019, the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) imposed a financial penalty of €50 million against Google, in accordance with the GDPR. This is the first time that the CNIL applies the new sanction limits provided by the GDPR…. Continue reading Industry reactions to Google’s €50 million GDPR violation fine

Hackers have become increasingly deft at stealing student data

Data collection is a vital resource for educational institutions across the world, including student records, which contain highly sensitive material such as a student’s name, address and social security number, and often test scores, behavioral … Continue reading Hackers have become increasingly deft at stealing student data

Minerva, Rapid7, & Venafi – Enterprise Security Weekly #119

NopSec announces the latest release of its flagship product, Minerva Labs Anti-Evasion Platform achieves VMware ready status, SecurityScorecard announces partnership with cybernance to drive holistic view of cyber risk across the enterprise, and we hav… Continue reading Minerva, Rapid7, & Venafi – Enterprise Security Weekly #119

Industry reactions to the enormous Marriott data breach

On September 8, 2018, Marriott received an alert from an internal security tool regarding an attempt to access the Starwood guest reservation database in the United States. Marriott engaged security experts to help determine what occurred. Marriott lea… Continue reading Industry reactions to the enormous Marriott data breach

Phorpiex bots target remote access servers to deliver ransomware

Threat actors are brute-forcing their way into enterprise endpoints running server-side remote access applications and attempting to spread the GandCrab ransomware onto other enterprise computers, SecurityScorecard researchers are warning. Their weapon… Continue reading Phorpiex bots target remote access servers to deliver ransomware