Security News

Analysis: Verizon's Breach Report 2018
2018-04-13 16:08

Verizon's latest Data Breach Investigations Report shows that half of data breaches in 2017 worldwide were orchestrated by organized cybercriminal groups, says Verizon's Ashish Thapar, who offers...

Uber Faces Stricter FTC Oversight After Concealing Breach
2018-04-13 15:19

Company Must Submit More Audit Reports, Keep Bug Bounty RecordsUber has agreed to stricter monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission following its concealment of a 2016 data breach while it...

Have We Reached Data Breach Fatigue?
2018-04-12 13:48

With RSA Conference about to convene, it’s a good time to think about the year (OK, this time it is 14 months) that has passed since the last RSA Conference and wonder if we have made any real,...

Breach at UK's Great Western Railway: Commuters told to reset passwords
2018-04-11 09:44

1,000 accounts compromised Great Western Rail is urging all customers to change their passwords after identifying a successful attack to access GWR.com accounts over the last week.…

Under Armour Mobile App Breach: Lessons to Learn
2018-04-09 18:59

The recent data breach impacting 150 million user accounts of Under Armour's MyFitnessPal application and website offers important lessons for mobile app developers, security expert Joan Pepin...

The Impact of All 50 States Having Breach Notification Laws
2018-04-09 18:15

With Alabama and South Dakota recently becoming the last two states to adopt breach notification laws, notification processes become more complicated, says privacy attorney Adam Greene, who offers...

Impact Of Chat Service Breach Expands To Best Buy, Kmart
2018-04-09 14:33

A breach that exposed the credit card information of Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings now expands its impact to include Best Buy and Kmart.

Week in review: Critical flaw in Cisco switches, Saks breach, closing the security update gap
2018-04-09 00:38

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Establishing covert communication channels by abusing GSM AT commands Security research often starts as a hobby...

Finland's 3rd Largest Data Breach Exposes 130,000 Users' Plaintext Passwords
2018-04-06 21:43

Over 130,000 Finnish citizens have had their credentials compromised in what appears to be third largest data breach ever faced by the country, local media reports. Finnish Communications...

Delta and Sears suffer data breach, credit card information compromised
2018-04-06 13:47

US-based Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings, the owners of Sears and Kmart, have announced that the breach suffered by chatbot company [24]7.ai has resulted in the compromise of credit card...