Security News

Moody's Downgrades Equifax Outlook to Negative Over 2017 Data Breach
2019-05-23 12:04

Moody's has revised its Equifax outlook from stable to negative, citing the effect of the 2017 data breach. This is the first time that a cybersecurity incident has resulted in a Moody's outlook...

How to write an effective data breach notification?
2019-05-23 05:30

Data breach notifications sent by companies to affected customers are often unclear and not very helpful, University of Michigan researchers have found. The problem(s) The researchers have...

Misconfigured IT (Again) Leads to Big Health Data Breach
2019-05-22 19:33

Did Company Also Bungle Notification for Some Victims Impacted?A misconfigured IT setting has landed a Puerto Rico-based clearinghouse and cloud software services vendor at the top of federal...

Hacker Breaks Into Stack Overflow Q&A Site, No Evidence of Data Breach
2019-05-17 07:48

Stack Overflow, one of the largest question and answer site for programmers, revealed today that an unknown hacker(s) managed to gain unauthorized access to its production systems on May 11, 2019....

GDPR: Europe Counts 65,000 Data Breach Notifications So Far
2019-05-16 12:03

$63 Million in Fines Imposed Since Privacy Law Went Into Full EffectEuropean privacy authorities have received nearly 65,000 data breach notifications since the EU's General Data Protection...

MI5 slapped on the wrist for 'serious' surveillance data breach
2019-05-15 11:38

Auditors poked around for a week after too many Peeping Toms had a trawl Home Secretary Sajid Javid has confessed to Parliament that MI5 bungled the security of "certain technology environments...

Equifax's Data Breach Costs Hit $1.4 Billion
2019-05-13 12:33

Massive 2017 Breach Continues to Bite the Credit Reporting Giant's Bottom LineEquifax has reported a loss in its latest quarter due to ongoing incident response, legal, investigative and corporate...

Two people indicted for massive Anthem health data breach
2019-05-13 11:23

They're part of a gang that spearphished millions of records out of the health insurer and other businesses, the DOJ says.

U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach
2019-05-09 21:48

The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant...

Chinese Hackers Behind 2015 Anthem Data Breach Indicted
2019-05-09 21:07

Two have been indicted in the 2015 massive data breach of health insurer Anthem, which compromised the data of at least 78 million customers.