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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Sep 13, 2017
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
Sanford Heisler Sharp Takes On Equifax In Tennessee
“Equifax has a long history of data breaches going back to 2013. The company should have rectified its processes and bolstered its security to ensure … more.
Investigation after council accidentally shares people’s email addresses
We take data breaches very seriously and have started an investigation in order to identify the root cause and to prevent a reoccurrence in the future. more.
Is Equifax Going to Be Punished for Losing Our Data?
The ubiquity of data breaches highlights not just a lack of capital investment in security, but the widespread inequality that has come to characterize … more.
New program aims to prevent data hacks like one with Equifax
It is an effort to help them avoid data breaches like the one with Equifax. “I would like to see one of our graduates taking the lead of companies and … more.
Business Continuity Management How Relevant is It to Data Breaches?
business continuity management on data breaches, and at the same time the … more.
The Equifax breach: What lesson will other companies learn?
The damage wrought by the hacking of Equifax is bigger and broader than in those previous data breaches. And so, expect Equifax to forever wear the … more.
Cloudticity Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification to Further Mitigate Risk in
Business Wire (press release) With the HITRUST CSF Certified Status, Cloudticity’s use of the implemented tools including server security, endpoint protection, application … more.
CommuniTake Recognized in Gartner’s 2017 Critical Capabilities for
SYS-CON Media (press release) CommuniTake Intact Mobile Security is a mobile Endpoint Protection Platform that dramatically improves the security of connected devices, provides … more.
Identifying Trends in Recent Data Breaches
breaches that are both larger in scope and increasingly devastating. more.
EDITORIAL: Stop companies from spreading your house keys all over town
Is that the sound of Congress finally rushing to stand up for the average American, now that 2017 is likely to set a new record for data breaches? more.
Equifax breach: Turning point or more of the same?
… Congress has dragged company executives in for a Capitol Hill finger-wagging in the wake of what were, at the time, unprecedented data breaches. more.
Massachusetts will hit Equifax with first state lawsuit over data breach
“In all of our years investigating data breaches, this may be the most brazen failure to protect consumer data we have ever seen,” said Healey, … more.
Lacework Recognized in Independent Cloud Workload Security Solutions Vendor
Markets Insider Providing unprecedented visibility, Lacework Polygraph compresses the breach detection cycle, reduces false positives, delivers precise alerts and … more.
Concerns over alleged data breaches in Kerry
Concerns have been raised that personal data, including mobile phone numbers, of successful housing applicants have been emerging from Kerry … more.
Data breach: State should make security freezes free
… stand up to the credit bureaus by improving our laws to make credit security freezes free to all consumers, whether affected by data breaches or not. more.
Protect your credit: Individuals must actively safeguard our own financial
Chinook Observer Data breaches like the one reported by credit-reporting company Equifax are a great calamity of modern life. The ancient Egyptians had swarms of … more.
How secure is your digital security?
… elements like threat-centric vulnerability management, centralised log management, internal network segmentation, backups and system hardening. more.
Equifax The Inherent Liability of Data Aggregation
The inherent danger of data breaches by hackers targeting personal data aggregators like Equifax is a growing, and likewise, the corporate liability for … more.
The Equifax breach proves destructive cyberattacks are only going to get
Business Insider Equifax trading floor As many as 143 million Americans were likely accessed in one of the largest data breaches in the United States. Reuters … more.
What are the Benefits of Outsourced Event Log Management?
September 2017. Log analysis as a service can quickly uncover and identify … more.
Vectra Honored as Gold Winner for Integrated Security Software Innovations
Markets Insider Cognito performs non-stop, automated threat hunting, triage and correlation to prioritize the highest risks and integrates with endpoint, NAC, firewall … more.
Apache Mounts Strong Defense, Equifax Retreats
One of the largest financial data breaches in U.S. history, it exposed names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, birth dates, driver’s license numbers … more.
AlertEnterprise in ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards (Learn More, Video)
The attack is done and it is over. Traditional PSIM (Physical Security Information Management) solutions are not capable of addressing this problem … more.
The Cost of Data Breaches in the US
Data breaches and hacking have become a fact of life but the one reported by US credit-reporting agency Equifax last week could be one of the worst … more.
Editor’s CornerVerizon remains muted on SDN goals, but plan could be big
I think AT&T is a ‘loose constructionist’ in SDN terms, meaning that they allow anything where software controls network behavior to be called ‘SDN. more.
New Bluetooth vulnerabilities expose billions of devices to hacking
In an email to SiliconANGLE, a spokesperson for Aramis said that business should be aware that current endpoint protection, mobile data … more.
Microsoft Bulks Up Defender ATP for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Industry-wide, the pressure is on to prevent data breaches. On Sept. 7, credit reporting and monitoring firm Equifax said it was the victim of a massive … more.
Massachusetts Will Hit Equifax With First State Lawsuit Over Data Breach
In all of our years investigating data breaches, this may be the most brazen failure to protect consumer data we have ever seen, said Healey, … more.
configure SNMP and remote sys log
configure sophos for this and verify that every setting is done at sophos end. more.
Stanford offers best practices for protecting personal identity following
Stanford University News Given the enormousness of this incident and the increased frequency of large-scale data breaches, we should all assume that our personally … more.
NC Government officials weigh in on Equifax data breach
GREENVILLE N.C. (WNCT) More than half of all Americans are impacted by the latest Equifax breach. The Better Business Bureau serving Eastern … more.
IBM Takes A Byte Out Of Crime With New Mainframe Encryption Tech
Big Blue’s latest response to the constant threat of data breaches is a … who use them are aware of the modern dangers that data breaches pose to … more.
Hurricanes, wild fires, earthquakes, data breaches. With all the disasters
PR Web (press release) On September 14th 2017, TS Tech and Berks Fire Water are co-hosting a seminar to help businesses and facilities prepare to recover from a disaster. more.
US senator on Equifax hack: ‘Somebody needs to go to jail’
“In all of our years investigating data breaches, this may be the most brazen failure to protect consumer data we have ever seen,” Healey said in a … more.
IDdriven: Reducing the risk for data breaches
The internal threat of data leaks and data breaches is real and is something that has to be mitigated with automated identity and access management … more.
Why are we still using Social Security numbers as ID?
The data breaches beg the question: Why are we still using Social Security numbers to identify ourselves? Social Security numbers were first issued in … more.
Q&A with Davis Merrey: Two-step verification process can guard against
NewsOK.com A: Unfortunately, there’s no way to guarantee prevention of data breaches, but there are ways that can reduce the risk of them. Most data breaches for … more.
Victim of Equifax data breach speaks out
NEW YORK – Congressional leaders are demanding a detailed explanation from Equifax about the hack that exposed sensitive information of 143 … more.
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