Security News

Facebook's Early, Misguided Call on Breach Disclosure
2019-03-27 12:33

Emails With Aussie Regulator Show Facebook's Thoughts on 'View As' HackShortly after a massive data breach affected up to 50 million accounts last September, Facebook didn't believe the incident...

Washington, D.C. AG Wants Better Data Breach Protection
2019-03-22 21:03

Top District Prosecutor Aims to Improve Consumer Breach ProtectionKarl Racine, the attorney general for Washington, D.C., is looking to strengthen the District's data breach laws, specifically by...

GDPR: Data Breach Notification 101
2019-03-22 20:03

Brian Honan of BH Consulting on When to Notify - or NotSince the EU's new GDPR privacy law came into effect in May 2018, one challenge for organizations that suffer a breach is knowing whether or...

Industry Reactions to Norsk Hydro Breach: Feedback Friday
2019-03-22 16:37

Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that caused disruptions at some of its plants and forced the company to turn to manual processes to fulfill...

Finland to Investigate Suspected Nokia Chinese Data Breach
2019-03-21 15:26

Finnish authorities will launch an investigation into claims that Nokia phones have been transmitting users' personal data to China, the country's data protection ombudsman announced on Thursday. read more

EU Fines Google for Anti-trust Breach
2019-03-20 13:06

The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator slapped tech giant Google with a new fine on Wednesday over unfair competition, in Europe's latest salvo against Silicon Valley. read more

Gargantuan Gnosticplayers breach swells to 863 million records
2019-03-19 12:40

Another 26m records stolen from another six online companies brings this hacker's total number of records to 863m from 38 websites.

Week in review: Marriott breach details, public-interest technology, the quantum computer threat
2019-03-17 19:45

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Marriott CEO reveals more details about the massive data breach Equifax CEO Mark Begor and Arne Sorenson, the CEO of...

Data breach reports delayed as organizations struggle to achieve GDPR compliance
2019-03-15 05:45

Businesses routinely delayed data breach disclosure and failed to provide important details to the ICO in the year prior to the GDPR’s enactment. On average, businesses waited three weeks after...

Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach
2019-03-13 20:56

Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [NASDAQ: SZMK] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and...