When Obscurity Is Not a Defense
Many organizations facing a data-security incident struggle to understand how or why their organization was targeted in an attack. Most […]
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UK’s councils unprepared for cyber-attacks, report says
More than 25% of UK councils have had their computer systems breached in the past five years, campaigners say. A […]
Web Hosting Services Could Leave Small Businesses at Risk of Phishing
The Federal Trade Commission today released a staff report that examines 11 web-hosting services that market themselves to small businesses […]
Strategic cyber criminals likely to capitalise on GDPR
As cyber criminals concentrate on targeted, strategic, money-making attacks, they are likely to use GDPR fines as leverage to extort […]
Recent OCR Newsletter Highlights Growing Cyber Extortion Threat for Healthcare Organizations
The OCR’s January 2018 newsletter details specific types of cyber extortion that healthcare organizations are currently encountering, including ransomware, denial […]
A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions
Cyberattacks are on the rise, with over 1,000 data breaches occurring at U.S. organizations in 2016 alone, most often through […]
A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions
Cyberattacks are on the rise, with over 1,000 data breaches occurring at U.S. organizations in 2016 alone, most often through […]
‘Cryptojackers’ Dig Into Your Phone to Mine Their Coins Cheaply
There’s a chance your computer or phone is quietly producing a cryptocurrency called Monero. Criminals looking to commandeer massive processing power […]
What is Cybersecurity, and How Can it Affect the Winter Olympics?
The world in 2018 is interconnected. Cybersecurity threats are widespread — even at the 2018 Winter Olympics. As we recorded […]
New Hack Can Steal Data From Devices in Faraday Cages
Last year Wikileaks released documents detailing how attackers can compromise offline computers. This new study goes one step further, exposing […]
Cryptojacking attack hits ~4,000 websites, including UK’s data watchdog
At first glance a CoinHive crypto miner being served by a website whose URL contains the string ‘ICO’ might not […]
Equifax says more private data was stolen in 2017 breach than first revealed
The credit rating agency said it didn’t originally announce “potential” data points, like tax identification numbers, that “may have been […]