Texas Government Agencies Hit by Ransomware
The local governments and agencies from twenty-three Texas towns were hit by a coordinated ransomware campaign last week. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) became aware of the...
View ArticleHow Your Company Can Prevent a Cyberattack
Capital One's announcement of a hack that affected more than 100 million people should have you asking not what, but who's in your wallet. The company estimated a year-one expense ranging from...
View ArticleFacebook Rolls Out “Clear History” Tool
Facebook has begun to roll out a tool that allows users to “clear” data collected about their web browsing activities.The social media giant promised the tool in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica...
View ArticleUnprotected MoviePass Database Exposes Customer Data
MoviePass confirmed a data breach that exposed customer data on an unprotected database. The incident included credit card numbersResearchers discovered the database online on a subdomain of MoviePass...
View ArticleAmazon and GitHub Are Paying the Price for Capital One's Data Breach....
The data breach of Capital One was big news, but it was also a familiar story: a major financial company with the budget and means to secure its data didn't bother to do so, and the personal...
View ArticleRing Doorbell Cameras Partner With Over 400 Police Departments, Raising...
Doorbell-camera firm Ring forged deals with more than 400 police departments nationwide, and in the process created a de facto digital neighborhood watch style network, one that law enforcement can use...
View ArticleGoogle Discovers Massive iPhone Hack
Researchers at Google announced the discovery of a hacking campaign that used hacked websites to deliver malware to iPhones.Project Zero, Google’s security research team, discovered fourteen previously...
View ArticleIf You Have to Ask How Much a Data Breach Costs, You Can't Afford One
According to IBM Security’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average time to identify and contain a breach was a whopping 279 days, and it took even longer to discover and deal with a malicious...
View ArticleVoice Deepfake Scams CEO out of $243,000
The CEO of a UK-based energy firm lost the equivalent of $243,000 after falling for a phone scam that implemented artificial intelligence, specifically a deepfake voice.The Wall Street Journal reported...
View ArticleExpect More Spam Calls and SIM-Card Scams: 400 Million Phone Numbers Exposed
As much as I love this one friend of mine, nothing is private when we’re together. You probably have a friend like this. The relationship is really great so you stay friends despite all, but this...
View ArticleMore than 50% of Canadians Affected by Data Breaches
19 million Canadians are estimated to have been affected by data breaches between late 2018 and 2019, slightly more than half the population of the country. The news was released by the Office of the...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Vendor Risk
Insider risk, supply chain vulnerability and vendor risk all boil down to the same thing: the more people have access to your data, the more vulnerable it is to being leaked or breached.This summer...
View ArticleMore than 50 U.S. Businesses Call For Federal Privacy Law
Fifty-one CEOs representing U.S.-based businesses sent an open letter to Congress requesting a comprehensive federal consumer privacy law.Signed by the CEOs AT&T, Comcast, General Motors,...
View ArticlePrediction: 2020 election is set to be hacked, if we don’t act fast
Since 1993, hackers have traveled to Las Vegas from around the world to demonstrate their skills at DefCon’s annual convention, and every year new horrors of cyber-insecurity are revealed as they wield...
View ArticleNew Breach Exposes an Entire Nation: Living and the Dead
A misconfigured database has exposed the personal data of nearly every Ecuadorean citizen, including 6.7 million children.The database was discovered by vpnMentor and was traced back to Ecuadorean...
View ArticleNew Nevada Privacy Regulation Goes Into Effect Oct. 1
New provisions to Nevada’s online privacy law will be effective on October 1, 2019.Nevada Senate Bill 220, signed into law earlier this year, will require operators of websites and online services to...
View ArticleCompanies Can Have Their Identities Stolen, Too. Here's What to Do About It.
When Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked for roughly 20 minutes, we all got a glimpse of corporate identity theft, and why it matters. While the takeover was by no means a major cyberevent...
View ArticleCourt Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data
A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law.In an opinion released earlier this month, the 9th Circuit U.S.Court of...
View ArticleEU Court Limits “The Right to Be Forgotten” Privacy
The European Court of Justice ruled that the E.U.’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law only applies within the borders of its member states.“Currently, there is no obligation under E.U. law, for a...
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It’s Google’s World. Your Business Is Just Living in It
Fifty attorneys general announced earlier this month that Google is the target of an antitrust probe. Any business owner who has happened to find themselves stuck in the company's orbit--that would be...
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