Security News

Brokerage Firm Hit With $500,000 Data Breach Penalty
2019-09-16 20:18

Commission Finds That Phillip Capital Made Series of MisstepsThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has hit Philips Capital Inc., a Chicago-based brokerage firm, with a $500,000 penalty for...

Open source breach and attack simulation tool Infection Monkey gets new features
2019-09-16 04:00

Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, unveiled new capabilities for its Infection Monkey that make it the industry’s first Zero Trust assessment tool. Added features...

Breach Protection in the Palm of Your Hand
2019-09-11 12:04

CISOs and CIOs need to know better than anyone the security pulse of their organizations. On the other hand, they cannot be flooded with every changing detail. Finding the right balance that...

Avoiding Breach Notification Blunders
2019-09-10 19:03

What Can Be Learned From Hospice's Mailing Mishap That Triggered 'Corrective' Notification?A mishap involving the mailing of breach notification letters has led a Tennessee hospice to issue a...

Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor
2019-09-09 16:47

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground,...

Health Data Breach Tally Spikes; AMCA Breach Reports Added
2019-09-05 19:48

Total Number of Individuals Affected by Breaches Reported in 2019 TriplesThe federal tally of major health data breaches has spiked over the last month, mostly because of the American Medical...

Over 328,000 Users Hit by Foxit Data Breach
2019-09-04 04:50

PDF solutions provider Foxit last week informed customers that it had recently detected unauthorized access to data associated with its “My Account” service. read more

562,000 Impacted in XKCD Forum Data Breach
2019-09-03 14:24

The XKCD forum has been taken offline after suffering a data breach that impacted 562,000 subscribers. The forum is associated with XKCD, a webcomic that American author Randall Munroe created in...

Foxit Software Breach Exposes Account Data
2019-09-02 09:33

PDF and Document Developer's Breach Notification is Light on DetailsFoxit Software, the developer of popular PDF and document software, says user accounts were compromised in a breach. The...

Foxit PDF Software Company Suffers Data Breach—Asks Users to Reset Password
2019-08-30 18:18

If you have an online account with Foxit Software, you need to reset your account password immediately—as an unknown attacker has compromised your personal data and log-in credentials. Foxit...