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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Oct 14, 2016
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
Holiday Season Hackers Target Retail Chains for Profitable Gains
According to an Oct. 13 report released by Level 3 Communications, retailers may be the most vulnerable to data breaches this holiday season …
Healthcare Data Breaches Are Common, Putting Patient Data At Risk
conclusions from the Ponemon Institute’s sixth annual study on the state of …
Old SSH Vulnerability at Center of Credential-Stuffing Attacks
… home networking devices. Those connected things are then being used as proxies to test stolen credentials on third-party web-based applications.
UTM endpoint protection won’t update clients
firmware 9.407-3 with endpoint license. I’ve got some problems: 1- ramdonly …
Report: Companies still woefully unprepared for data breaches
With large-scale data breaches and ransomware schemes continuing to plague organizations in both the public and private sectors, cybersecurity …
That UK law that’ll share Brits’ private info among govt departments? Yeah,
The Register … welcome provisions were made, such as making data breaches a criminal offence, its proposals with regards to data sharing contain no definition …
Congress must act on data security breaches
This continuing onslaught of hacks and data breaches erodes consumers’ trust and opens them to serious financial and identity theft risk. Furthermore …
Majority of businesses have not inspected cloud services for malware
While respondents understand the risk of data breaches, nearly a third could not determine if they had been breached or what types of data were lost …
Health data breaches in Q3 2016 outpace first two quarters
More data breaches happened in the third quarter of 2016 than in the year’s first two quarters. That’s according to the Protenus Breach Barometer, …
Think like a cyber criminal, prevent a data breach
Advanced threat protection, which provides up-to-date defences against the latest attacks. Many of the recent data breaches have fooled or evaded …
How to handle personal data (without getting hacked)
The problem is whether or not you can trust companies to keep your data secure, from both hackers and government spies. Data breaches are …
Nearly 90% of healthcare lawyers say industry is at greater risk of data
ModernHealthcare.com About 87% of health law attorneys think their healthcare clients are at a greater risk for cybersecurity attacks than other industries, a survey released …
Blockchain.info DNS Hacking Attempt Shuts Down Service for Few Hours
… from Blockchain.info platform, gaining access to their login credentials in the process. Armed with the stolen credentials, they could have even stolen …
The net is closing in: Why SMEs must take cyber security seriously and
ITProPortal The areas of expertise include IT security, information management, insurance, regulatory and legal. It would be tempting (and all too easy) in the …
Five Questions General Counsels Should Ask About Privacy And Cybersecurity
Mondaq News Alerts (registration) … involving third parties who have company data is important because a company cannot contract away its responsibility for data breaches.
How Data Encryption Benefits Data Security
For example, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) experienced health data breaches because of an improperly …
Data Breach Decision Points: Part 2
This is part 2 of an eight-part guide to handling data breaches. This eight-part series explores these difficult decision points. For each there are no …
End-To-End Encryption Could’ve Protected Yahoo Mail Users From 2014 Data
Tom’s Hardware Not surprisingly, many of the same reasons why E2EE protects against data breaches also apply when trying to protect against spying, with or without …
Expected Rise In Information Security Spending Does Not Warrant A Safer
The Merkle It is not surprising that the number of data breaches has been on the rise in recent years, mostly due to companies using sub-par security measures.
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