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Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits' personal info to hackers
2018-09-20 00:10

UK watchdog demands max penalty after security snafu The UK's privacy watchdog wants to fine Equifax £500,000 ($660,000) after hackers siphoned off 15 million Brits' info from its databases.…

Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' database queries to work out what was nicked – audit
2018-09-17 07:07

And let security kit fail for 10 months due to bad cert Equifax was so unsure how much data had been stolen during its 2017 mega-hack that its IT staff spent weeks rerunning the hackers' database...

Equifax Breach: Key Lessons Learned
2018-09-14 09:48

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of a new Government Accountability Office report on the causes of last year's massive Equifax breach. Also: An update on the...

Postmortem: Multiple Failures Behind the Equifax Breach
2018-09-11 12:33

76-Day Breach Slowly Exfiltrated Data From 51 Databases, GAO Report RevealsA newly released report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the massive 2017 Equifax data breach provides a...

Postmortem: Behind the Equifax Breach, Multiple Failures
2018-09-11 11:03

76-Day Breach Slowly Exfiltrated Data From 51 Databases, GAO Report RevealsA newly released report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the massive 2017 Equifax breach provides a...

Attackers Made 9,000 Unauthorized Database Queries in Equifax Hack: Report
2018-09-10 11:43

It took Equifax 76 days to detect the massive 2017 data breach, despite the fact that attackers had conducted roughly 9,000 unauthorized queries on its databases, according to a new report from...

Apache Struts 2 Flaw Uncovered: ‘More Critical Than Equifax Bug’
2018-08-23 16:46

Apache has patched a critical remote code-execution vulnerability in Struts 2, and users should update immediately.

Second former Equifax staffer charged with insider trading
2018-07-02 10:41

In another entry for the ‘what were they thinking’ file, a second former Equifax executive has been charged with insider trading in advance of the company’s massive data breach announcement last September.

Former Equifax Manager Charged With Insider Trading
2018-06-29 13:18

US securities regulators announced insider trading charges on Thursday against a former Equifax manager who sold shares in the company before it disclosed a giant data breach. read more

Equifax Coder Settles Insider Trading Charges With SEC
2018-06-29 09:33

Software Engineer Profited From Breach Knowledge, Regulator AllegesAn Equifax software engineer has settled an insider trading charge with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after he...