Security News

Babysitting app suffers ‘temporary data breach’ of 93,000 users
2018-08-23 11:09

Babysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of...

Analysis: Anthem Data Breach Settlement
2018-08-22 18:48

Some terms of the recent $115 million settlement in the class action lawsuit against health insurer Anthem tied to a 2015 cyberattack appear underwhelming for the victims, says attorney James...

Health Data Breach Victim Tally for 2018 Soars
2018-08-21 19:33

Analyzing the Latest 'Wall of Shame' TrendsAbout 30 new health data breaches - including a phishing attack impacting 1.4 million individuals - have been added in recent weeks to the official...

Messy Insider Breach Impacts 258,000 Over Five Year Span
2018-08-20 21:03

Keylogging Software Allegedly Used to Gain Unauthorized Systems AccessA messy insider incident - allegedly involving an elected official in Wisconsin who is suspected of installing keylogging...

Endpoint breach prevention by reducing attack surfaces
2018-08-17 12:00

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management, Cloud Agent Platform at Qualys, talks about endpoint breach prevention by reducing attack surfaces. Here’s...

Hi-de-Hack! Redcoats red-faced as Butlin's holiday camp admits data breach hit 34,000
2018-08-10 14:22

Staff opened phishing email Holiday camp and British institution Butlin's has admitted 34,000 visitor records have been compromised.…

Spirent extends CyberFlood with Data Breach Assessment for testing of networks and devices
2018-08-08 06:54

Spirent Communications announced the availability of the solution using data breach emulation technology to provide holistic and hyper-realistic security testing of networks and devices for...

Week in review: Deploying automation securely, dark web activities that indicate a breach
2018-08-06 00:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Industrial cybersecurity: Protecting OT from IT A powerful technique for protecting OT from IT, or to enforce whatever...

Global Shipping Firm Clarksons Provides Update on 2017 Breach
2018-08-03 12:28

Clarkson PLC (Clarksons), a global shipping services firm, this week provided an update to the breach it suffered between May and November 2017. Little further on the nature of the breach is...

Reddit suffers data breach due to SMS-based 2FA
2018-08-02 14:20

Popular social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit has suffered a breach. The attacker broke into some of its systems and got access to some user data, but did not manage to modify any...