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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Oct 12, 2016
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
Kingston Releases IronKey D300 and IronKey D300 Managed Encrypted USB Flash
PRWire (press release) Sydney, Australia 11 October 2016 As data breaches are still pervasive nowadays, it increases the need to ensure sensitive information is properly …
Why Insurance Companies Want to Subsidize Your Smart Home
… and global head of insurance at Accenture, says that moving to turn customers’ homes into data spigots will also increase the risk of data breaches.
Online credentials creating a gold mine for cyber attackers
According to the cyber security firm, a ton of stolen credentials are regularly sold, traded and shared online across paste sites and online marketplaces …
How to Survive a Data Breach
Data breaches happen more frequently than we think and the aftermath can be disastrous with many companies suffering losses and reputational …
77 percent of hackers say no password is safe
Cyber attacks and data breaches have become frequent. Email and social media accounts have been hacked and personal data stolen from …
Big Data or Big Brother? How to use data to create a better customer
ITProPortal Fears around identity theft, data breaches and sophisticated cyber-heists have all contributed to an increase in online surveillance which is …
Problem with Device Control and external Optical Devices
(connected per USB). We blocked all USB and optical devices to allow only …
UK financial fraud up by a quarter in first half of 2016
Intelligence suggests fraudsters are using card details obtained with malware and data breaches, while there are more opportunities to commit such …
DLT to Offer Govt Clients Endpoint Security Support Through Intel
ExecutiveBiz (blog) Intel Security has chosen DLT Solutions as a support provider for the former’s portfolio of endpoint protection offerings in the public sector market.
China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past
Robert Young receives funding from GHCQ, the Royal Society through grant UF110555, the Science and Technology Facilities Council through grant …
Shadow IT is leaving organisations wide open to attacks
… ‘Lost in the Cloud: Data Security Challenges and Risks’, says all of this can leave the organisations exposed and vulnerable to data breaches.
Generali Global Assistance Announces Two-Part Series on Federal Identity
Marketwired (press release) The two-part series outlines in detail the disturbing increase of data breaches throughout the U.S. corporate landscape, the legislative lapses that fail …
Dataguise Powers DgSecure Monitor With Apache Eagle for Immediate Sensitive
Digital Journal A study by the Ponemon Institute1 found that malicious attacks can take an average of 256 days to identify while data breaches caused by human …
Netskope and Ponemon Institute Study: Majority of Businesses Have Not
PR Newswire (press release) While respondents understand the risk of data breaches, nearly a quarter could not determine if they had been breached, and nearly a third couldn’t …
Employee Errors Cause Most Data Breach Incidents in Cyber Attacks
“The main reason why we ignore the reports which point to human error as the main root cause of data breaches is the belief that only network security …
A Bank’s Data Needs Its Own Balance Sheet
Perhaps the most obvious category of data liabilities are data breaches unwanted penetrations of a company’s data that do nothing to build investor …
Article III Standing is Not the Only Hurdle in Data Breach Litigation - So
Lexology (registration) … two different Illinois federal courts have given financial institutions and merchants a second chance to try to allege claims arising from data breaches …
Are big banks about to get smaller?
In this day and age when data breaches are a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’, it’s understandable that the industry will be concerned about the robustness of the …
Legislating Cybersecurity: Breaches Grab Lawmakers’ Attention
Few states are considering the exposure and costs of less resilient critical services, data breaches, theft of intellectual property and sensitive …
Visual hacking and some of the best ways to help prevent it
Globally, 27 percent of data breaches involved sensitive information, such as login credentials, attorney-client privileged documents and financial …
Vera Bradley notifies customers it was hacked
Credit card data breaches have become distressingly common in recent years. There were high-profile breaches at Michaels craft stores, Target, and …
Rewinding the Headline: Where Do Data Breaches Begin?
data breach, and how you can better prepare or prevent being the next …
How healthcare can profit from financial security practices
According to a study by Symantec Corporation, there were 120 healthcare data breaches in 2015, accounting for 39 percent of all breaches across …
Criminals Are Using Big Data Tech, And So Should You
As big data breaches get bigger and more of your stolen information is available on the Dark Web, cybercriminals are turning to more sophisticated …
Unsecured MongoDB Database: 58M Business Firm Accounts Leaked
Nevertheless, the number of data breaches is increasing day by day. Risk Based Security noted that: There have been 2,928 publicly disclosed data …
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