Security News

Hacker Falsely Claiming to Breach FireEye Arrested, CEO Says
2017-11-02 14:12

The hacker who falsely claimed to have breached FireEye -- it was just the personal online accounts of one employee -- was arrested by international law enforcement and taken into custody on...

CEO email exposure underscores the importance of password management
2017-10-26 14:32

Nearly one in three major CEOs has been pwned using their company email address, according to a new F-Secure study. In other words, a service they access using their company email has been hacked...

Thirty Percent of CEO Email Accounts Exposed in Breaches: Study
2017-10-25 12:32

Thirty percent of CEOs from the world's largest organizations have had their company email address and password stolen from a breached service. read more

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames One Employee For Patch Failures
2017-10-05 11:18

Did Breach Result From a Perfect Storm, or Were Failures Business as Usual?Equifax ex-CEO Richard Smith asserts that a single employee's failure to heed a security alert led to them failing to...

Congress Grills Equifax Ex-CEO on Breach
2017-10-03 22:03

House Subcommittee Scrutinizes What Happened, Considers Next StepsAt the first of three Congressional hearings slated this week to examine the Equifax mega-breach, one Republican said of the...

Equifax, former CEO reveal more details about the devastating breach
2017-10-03 19:35

Mandiant has concluded the forensic part of its Equifax breach investigation, and the results are as follows: 2.5 million additional US consumers were potentially impacted, bringing the total to...

Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies
2017-10-03 19:27

The credit bureau Equifax said Monday the information of 145.5M Americans, was implicated in this summer's breach.

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames 'Human Error, Tech Failures' for Breach
2017-10-03 08:33

Richard Smith Offers Explanation in Written Testimony Submitted to Congress"Human error and technology failures" led to the massive Equifax breach, the company's former CEO, Richard Smith says in...

Equifax Warned About Vulnerability, Didn't Patch It: Ex-CEO
2017-10-02 19:41

The security team at Equifax failed to patch a vulnerability in March after getting a warning about the flaw, opening up the credit agency to a breach affecting 143 million people, the former...

Ex-CEO Blames 'Human Error, Tech Failures' for Equifax Breach
2017-10-02 17:33

Richard Smith Offers Explanation in Written Testimony Submitted to Congress"Human error and technology failures" lead to the massive Equifax breach, the company's former CEO, Richard Smith says in...