Security News

CEO of Major UK-Based Cryptocurrency Exchange Kidnapped in Ukraine
2017-12-28 09:48

Pavel Lerner, a prominent Russian blockchain expert and known managing director of one of the major crypto-exchanges EXMO, has allegedly been kidnapped by "unknown" criminals in Kiev, the capital...

Former Yahoo CEO: Stronger Defense Couldn't Stop Breaches
2017-11-08 23:33

Marissa Mayer Testifies on the Challenges of Halting State-Backed Persistent AttacksThe former CEO of Yahoo, which has had 3 billion records exposed in a 2013 data breach, testified at a Senate...

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...