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State officials expressed grave conce s about election hacking the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller handed down indictments of 13 Russian nationals on charges of interfering with the 2016 presidential election. The Washington Post reports:
While cryptominers are on the rise, ransomware was the most prevalent form of malware in 2017, according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Report, released last week. Ransomware made its first appearance in Verizon’s 2013 report, and this is the second year in a row in which ransomware incidents doubled.
For Years, Yahoo Put Usability Ahead of Cyber Security The massive Yahoo data breach, which compromised 500 million user accounts and put its acquisition by Verizon at risk, happened because the company repeatedly put product user experience ahead of security, the New York Times reported.
The Equifax breach isn’t the largest data breach, but it is one of the most troubling because of its massive scope, the nature of the information stolen, and the absolutely awful way in which it was handled.
Governance, risk, and compliance should be at the heart of AWS security procedures Another day, another AWS security breach, and this one is particularly bad because of the extraordinarily sensitive nature of the data that was compromised: Over 9,000 documents containing personal data on job applicants holding U.S. security clearances, some of them Top Secret, were discovered sitting on an insecure AWS S3 bucket, where they may have been for as long as a year. Gizmodo reports:
Clothing retailer Forever 21 suffered a POS system breach in an undisclosed number of stores from March to October 2017, the company announced last week. The Forever 21 breach was discovered by a third party and involved hackers taking advantage of POS systems that were not encrypted.
New PCI DSS Ecommerce Best Practices Replace Previous Guidelines Issued in 2013
The deadline for GDPR compliance is right around the corner; is your company ready? Here’s what you need to know about this important new data protection law and what your organization must do to prepare for it. What is GDPR?
No organization wants to think that one of its own trusted employees is out to get the firm. However, a study by Intel found that 43% of data losses are the result of “internal actors” – and about half of these incidents were due to the intentional acts of malicious insiders, not accidents or carelessness.
Up until now, healthcare cyber security has been focused on protecting patient data, ensuring HIPAA compliance, and, more recently, protecting systems from ransomware attacks. However, as healthcare technology advances, a new threat is emerging: the potential for hackers to attack smart medical devices such as insulin pumps and pacemakers. If IoT security is not taken seriously, innovation will be stunted and, in the case of healthcare, lives will be lost. What is the Internet of Things?
The NSA isn’t the only Washington organization being embarrassed by a data breach. The sorry state of cyber security in America has taken center stage in this year’s presidential election. In June, it was discovered that Russian cyber criminals had managed to hack the Democratic National Committee’s email server, stealing over 20,000 emails and sharing them with WikiLeaks.
The WannaCry ransomware attack was the end result of years of ignorance on the part of governments, private-sector firms, and the public regarding how serious cyber threats have become.