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FBI Plans to Inform States of Election Breaches
2020-01-17 16:56

The FBI has changed its policy around election cybersecurity and said it will now notify state officials in the event that local election systems are hacked. Previously, the FBI would inform these parties but didn't necessarily share the information with state election officials, a move that came under fire from state lawmakers and Congress for not going far enough to protect the integrity of elections from cyberattacks.

FBI Plans to Notify States About Local Election Breaches
2020-01-17 11:17

The FBI, in a change of policy, is committing to inform state officials if local election systems have been breached, federal officials said Thursday. Now the FBI will notify both counties victimized by breaches as well as the state's chief election official - in most cases, the secretary of state.

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019
2019-12-26 14:00

2019 was a banner year for data exposures, with billions of people affected by cloud misconfigurations, hacks and poor security practices in general. Here's the Threatpost Top 10 for data-breach...

Top Zero Days, Data Breaches and Security Stories of 2019: News Wrap
2019-12-20 17:40

From ransomware ramp up, to voice assistant privacy perils, the Threatpost team breaks down the top news stories from this past year.

Hacking and malware cause 75% of all data breaches in the financial services industry
2019-12-17 06:00

Only 6% of all breaches in 2019 were suffered by financial services firms, according to Bitglass. However, these breaches compromised significantly more records than those that occurred in other...

Most security pros admit to accidental internal breaches at their organization
2019-12-16 06:00

44% percent of executives believe employees have erroneously exposed personally identifiable information (PII) or business-sensitive information using their company email account. Accidental...

63% of organizations face security breaches due to hardware vulnerabilities
2019-12-11 14:00

While hardware-level attacks are high, only 59% of companies have implemented a hardware security strategy, Dell and Forrester found.

2 Phishing-Related Health Data Breaches Grow Even Bigger
2019-12-04 21:18

Victim Tallies Climb as Breach Investigations ContinueInvestigations of two apparently unrelated phishing-related breaches that affected members of Presbyterian Health Plan have revealed the...

Health Data Breaches: 3 Lessons Learned
2019-11-29 07:33

Insights From Major Healthcare Sector Breaches and CyberattacksThe healthcare sector has had plenty of significant data breaches so far this year. What can be learned from organizations'...

ThreatList: Healthcare Breaches Spike in October
2019-11-28 13:00

38 million consumer health records have been exposed so far in 2019.