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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Aug 31, 2016
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
OneLogin breached, hacker finds cleartext credential notepads
“Based on the activity in the log management system, we can see that the intruder was able to view, at a minimum, notes that were updated during the …
Elections Offices Preparing for Potential Data Breaches
WESLACO - The general election is months away but elections offices across the country are already preparing for hackers targeting data systems that …
Why Dropbox’s data breach response is still wrong
One day Dropbox may well get its head around the best-practice methods for handling customer data breaches, but today is not that day. News broke …
Fired employee sues SF State for $1 million after alleged hack
Data breaches are potentially very costly, according to a 2016 research report by the Ponemon Institute, which estimated the average cost of a data …
How Small and Midsize Businesses Can Stop Cyberattacks
The damage that data breaches can do to a company’s brand is just as costly, if not more. Customers who have their personal information exposed as …
Organisations overwhelmed by security breaches, as incidents reported to
ResponseSource (press release) The sectors responsible for most data breaches remained consistent; with health, local government and education responsible for the majority of data …
Compliance in the Cloud: End User Security
jpgA recent Ponemon Institute survey shows that employees end users- are the cause of over 50% of the data breaches that occur. And the numbers …
Small-Scale Data Breaches Get New Focus From Feds
Almost exclusively, the news around healthcare data breaches focuses on mass only the biggest and most broadly impactful violations receive …
The week of the data leak
Dropbox, OneLogin, and Illinois and Arizona election systems have been subjected to data breaches this week. Malware attacks are on the rise, and …
HIPAA Breaches: Size Doesn’t Necessarily Matter
That settlement dealt with three different data breaches that compromised more than four million individual patient records. Since announcing the …
Can SSL Decryption Prevent Healthcare Data Breaches?
Utilizing data encryption methods is often touted as a way to prevent healthcare data breaches, as it could help prevent sensitive information from …
68 million Dropbox credentials leak online
The stolen credentials date back to mid-2012, and Dropbox acknowledged last week that it was forcing some customers to reset their passwords if …
A billion files put at risks in first half of year, says cybersecurity
Central Valley Business Times While the number of data breaches for the year is down approximately 17 percent compared to the same time last year, the number of records …
LogRhythm Closes $50 Million Financing to Extend Global Leadership in
CSO Australia … uniquely unifies next-generation SIEM (https://logrhythm.com/products/siem/), log management (https://logrhythm.com/products/log-management/), …
Dropbox data breach: 68 million user account details leaked
The Dropbox dump is just the latest in a string of high-profile data breaches. A hacker was reportedly looking to sell 117 million passwords from a …
The Dropbox data breach is a warning to update passwords
Recent data breaches underline the need for Internet users to regularly update the passwords for all their Internet accounts. On Wednesday, Spotify …
Trustwave to Open New Security Operations Center in Japan to Help Fight
Marketwired (press release) These secure facilities house the infrastructure and teams delivering customer service, threat detection, threat hunting, platform management and …
More and more organizations becoming victims of cyberattacks: Report
… that their company is unprepared to detect malicious traffic, leaving them vulnerable to costly data breaches and the loss of intellectual property.
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