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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Sep 20, 2016
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
Spammers hack iCloud accounts to message victims in China
The hackers then use the stolen credentials to sign onto an Apple device of their own. The person whose iCloud account it is will receive a notification …
Britons Place Trust In Banks To Provide Biometric Services
Fingerprints are left behind on every object you touch. Your iris and facial data is recorded with every photo you pose for. Recent data breaches have …
Gemalto releases findings of first half 2016 Breach Level Index
The Breach Level Index is a global database that tracks data breaches and measures their severity based on multiple dimensions, including the …
Where Consumer Reports Stands on Privacy Issues
For starters, we need a strong law to help prevent harmful data breaches. According to the nonprofit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, more than 900 …
AppSense Protecting Against Data Breaches: Managing Software And
DABCC.com In response to recent changes in the CIS Critical Security Controls, a new focus has been placed on managing software across networks to prevent …
Why this hospital is moving to Amazon’s cloud
Since 2012 three Texas-based health care organizations have merged to create USMD Health System. During the past four years CIO Mike Yerrid has …
Centrify Server Suite 2016 Achieves Certification with SAP NetWeaver
Security teams are struggling to prevent data breaches in the cloud and mobile era. Compromised user identities are the leading cause of data …
Over 554M data records breached, with identity theft most common
Across the globe, there were 974 reported data breaches, compared to 844 in the second half of 2015, and the volume of compromised data records …
Consumer Reports Takes On Privacy, Recommends 66 Ways to Prevent Hackers
PR Web (press release) The past two years have been marked by news reports on data breaches, photo-hacking scandals, compromised home security cameras, ransomware …
Not All Companies That Suffer Data Breaches Are Penalized!
Some high-profile data breaches, however, are not eventually followed by equally high-profile settlement announcements. A case in point is the …
Terbium Labs Announces the General Availability of Its Dark Web Data
Yahoo Sports With Matchlight, organizations no longer suffer from the long data breach detection times that lead to incident response delays. We’re shifting the …
Business costs of adapting to data protection reforms will increase the
Out-Law.com … together with stiffer requirements on data security, means that data breaches could have a significant effect on companies’ reputations in future.
Data breaches soar in first half of 2016 as UK government comes under fire
There were 974 data breaches worldwide in the first half of 2016, a 15 … between nuisance data breaches and truly impactful mega breaches.
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.6 MP6 has been released!
New fixes and component versions in Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.6 MP6 - https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.INFO3932.html.
5 Common Failures Companies Make Regarding Data Breaches
Click through for five common failures companies make when preparing for, and responding to a data breach, as well as guidance for companies on …
Mobile review website MoDaCo coughs to data breach
Data breaches happen all the time, this particular one is causing a bit of a storm on their own forums as the users would like to have received …
Protecting against the threat of PoS malware
Once endpoint detection and response capabilities are in place, organisations also need to account for their off-line, physical security. PoS systems …
Fighting Account Takeover Attacks With AuthTables
… experience defending against and triaging these attacks and decided that organizations needed help identifying when stolen credentials are being …
Data breaches: This time it’s more personal
These were not the only breaches of the summer, nor were they the largest. However, each is a clear example of the changing face of data breaches …
Security Advisories Relating to Symantec Products
LiveUpdate. Apply definitions dated September 17th, 2016 rev. 1 or later. Engine …
Congress to Bureaucrats: Trust No One
Among the report’s suggested remedies to prevent future data breaches are a recommendation that the federal bureaucracy move to a “zero trust” …
At the CHIME LEAD Forum-Toronto, A Strong Focus on Cybersecurity Challenges
Unintentional action: nearly 12 percent of data breaches are caused by mistakes or unintentional actions such as improper mailings, errant emails, …
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.6 MP6 client-only patches
upgrade a client from older versions of SEP to SEP 12.1.6 MP6. Note: To …
More Than 554 Million Data Hacks Reported
Gemalto has been keeping track of publicly disclosed data breaches since 2013. North America accounts for a majority of the reported incidents at 79 …
Financial impact of hacking is small, new study says
The RAND findings are similar to those in a 2015 study by Columbia University, which found that major data breaches at many Fortune 500 …
Newton’s newest tech company announces 1st client
NEWTON Temprano Techvestors, a Newton-based, newly-formed company aimed at helping European software companies open operations in …
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