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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Aug 30, 2016
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
4 Cyber Risk Misconceptions Popular with Midsized Firms
… may contain indemnification provisions, there may be caps on indemnification amounts and exclusions for certain types of data breaches. Further …
Palo Alto Networks Unveils New WildFire European Cloud Hosted in the
PR Newswire (press release) Additionally, with the WildFire EU cloud, security teams across Europe can accelerate threat hunting, analytics and response efforts, with globally …
#Nextchat: HR and Cyber SecurityAre Employees the Weakest Link?
It was one of the largest data breaches in U.S. historyand it happened just last year. The April 2015 data breach of the U.S. Office of Personnel …
Study Finds Employees’ Security Hygiene Getting Worse Just As Ransomware
Nasdaq End users are far more likely to attribute data breaches to insider mistakes than IT or security professionals. Seventy-three percent of end users say …
What to look for in endpoint detection and response tools and services
Endpoint protection solutions differ substantially, ranging from the classic signature-based antivirus software, to more mature solutions with …
The Cloud Security Alliance Publishes Its Best Practices for Big Data
Linux.com (blog) And data breaches can be enormously expensive when they occur. IBM’s 2016 Cost of Data Breach report found that the average consolidated total …
Why accurate privileged user management is critical to preventing data
CIO Dive Maintaining an accurate active directory of privileged access users is a growing challenge for businesses and government with huge potential …
Spear-Phishing Attacks Increased by 55 Percent in 2015
In terms of data breaches that left identities exposed, the social services sector was the most frequently targeted, with 191 million identities exposed, …
Sancho: Florida primary safe from data breaches
Elections data breaches by foreign agents have been confirmed in Illinois and Arizona, but Florida’s primary is safe from any hacking, officials say.
FBI sends warnings to states following voter data breaches in Illinois,
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division sent out a Flash memo warning state board of election sites to look out for potential data …
Orgs’ Security Hygiene Plummets Amid Ransomware Spikes
End users are also far more likely to attribute data breaches to insider mistakes than IT or security professionals. Seventy-three percent of end users …
What to look for in endpoint detection and response tools and services
It’s become necessary to take a broader and more proactive approach to protect the endpoint. endpoint detection and response. See larger image.
Russian Hackers Might Be Trying to Manipulate U.S. Election Results
Earlier this month, the FBI notified state election officials of the data breaches and issued a “flash alert”first reported by Yahoo Newsurging them to …
SOCs Require More Than a Band-Aid Approach
Instead they offer log-management and a capability to write different rules to trigger alerts with no underlying infrastructure that helps automatically …
Voting system safe despite data breaches, election officials say
(KUTV) The Utah elections office is monitoring data breaches in Illinois and Arizona, but officials say even if a similar breach were to happen Utah, …
Study Suggests Insider Negligence In Ransomware Attacks
It is interesting to note that 73 percent of users blame users for data breaches while IT folks are a tad kinder and only 46 percent of them agree.
Zetoony to Discuss Data Breaches at Business Law Institute 2016
Association’s Business Law Institute 2016, Sept. 15-16 in Denver, Colo. The seminar …
Voter data breach leads to questions of tampering and state security
Privacy Professor CEO Rebecca Herold said people should worry about voter data breaches making personal information available, but noted there …
Westpac bank launches Databank data protection service
Called Databank, the Westpac service is claimed to reduce the risk of identity theft, customer data breaches and the privacy and consent problems that …
Hackers Stole Account Details for Over 60 Million Dropbox Users
This summer, hundreds of millions of records from sites such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com from years-old data breaches were sold and …
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