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