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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Oct 16, 2017
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
DIFC Courts CEO Mark Beer: legal industry desperately needs IT
Tahawul Tech Courts of the Future is already exploring judicial issues around the ownership and use of data; cybersecurity and data breaches and licensing and … more.
Replacing US Social Security Numbers With Estonia’s Cryptographic Model?
… that could offer secure identification and authentication in the digital era, strongly resist identity theft and be far more robust against data breaches? more.
InfoTrack buys CreditorWatch, looks to challenge credit reporting
iTWire … industry are both US companies - Equifax and Dun & Bradstreet - which share one common feature. Both suffered massive data breaches this year. more.
Compliance guru sees holes in Australia’s privacy law
The privacy act will pressure most Australian business to provide information on sensitive data breaches since it mandates the law on commonwealth … more.
Law requires that patient information remain private
This is of particular concern when you hear about all the data breaches in the news these days. Health care and personal care information can be … more.
Peter Moon: When could a data breach be toxic?
A lot of data breaches are like that. You may know what information has been hacked, but whether it’s likely to cause anyone serious harm is a … more.
Using a robust platform for cyber threat analysis training
Coupled with many new public policies aimed at mitigating the negative effects of data breaches, cyber espionage and intellectual property theft, … more.
These SA firms have the highest cybersecurity risk exposure
The index aggregates data that is publicly available through the dark and deep Web, or as the result of third-party data breaches. This data is used to … more.
Pizza Hut hack: Thousands of customers’ data stolen as users report
DeathRattleSports.com What’s causing so many data breaches and leaks? 7% of all Amazon S3 servers exposed online. Pizza Hut identified the security intrusion quickly … more.
Chris Bollard of Matheson on GDPR: ‘Ongoing compliance is the goal’
… the office of the Data Protection Commissioner wielding much greater powers particularly in how companies in Ireland deal with data breaches. more.
Curbing the impact of data breaches
As highlighted in the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), 75% of attacks come from the outside and a whopping 81% of … more.
WPA2 security flaw puts almost every Wi-Fi device at risk of hijack,
ZDNet Here are 2017’s biggest hacks, leaks, and data breaches so far. Dozens of data breaches, millions of people affected. Read More. That weakness … more.
Ensuring outsourced IT services are secure
Whilst currently it may be the case that many data breaches are going undetected by controllers because IT contractors are not informing them of such … more.
ShoCard CEO Armin Ebrahimi: Blockchain-Based Identity Management Gives
BlockTribune … eliminates the need for databases of personal information to be stored with any one company, data breaches like Equifax can be avoided. more.
Breaches and Compromises Stepped Up in Q1 and Q2
There were 918 data breaches in early 2017, up 30% from the previous half a year, and as a result 1.9 billion records were compromised, a 164% … more.
Information Security Specialist Paul Thomas Yoder Named 2017 Cybersecurity
PR Newswire (press release) He believes ordinary citizens around the world have the power to thwart cyber criminals and stem the tide of data breaches. “People are always the … more.
MENA IT security spending on track to hit $1.8bn in 2017: Gartner
… basic security and risk related hygiene processes like patch management, regular and scalable vulnerability scanning, centralised log management, … more.
Customers cheesed off after card details nicked in Pizza Hut data breach
“However, when the General Data Protection Regulation applies from May 25, 2018, it will be mandatory for organisations to notify data breaches that … more.
AsTech Launches Vigilance, a $1 Million Guarantee for Managed Qualys
Markets Insider “As data breaches continue to impact global businesses, boards of directors are now pursuing cyber insurance options to protect their companies,” … more.
Is Australia equipped for the cyber challenge?
While previously people were perhaps more accepting that data breaches were a fact of life in the digital world, attitudes have changed as awareness … more.
Beazley and Munich Re report surging demand for holistic cyber cover that
Nasdaq At that time most cyber policies only addressed third party liabilities arising from data breaches. As such, they were relevant to firms holding large … more.
Phishing Bait Helps Practice Catch Cybercriminals
According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 study of healthcare data breaches, it costs $380 per record when cybercriminals steal patients’ personal … more.
Situation Awareness Systems Market by Technology, Growth, Application &
openPR (press release) … Awareness Systems market comprises Command & Control System, Fire & Flood Alarm System, Physical Security Information Management, Radar, … more.
John Oliver Serves Up a Fried Chicken Metaphor to Make Sense of the Equifax
Slate Magazine (blog) Given that the headlines lately suggest you should be worrying about everything from sex abuse in Hollywood to the deadliest mass shooting in … more.
We Heart It says a data breach affected over 8 million accounts, included
TechCrunch Though nowhere near as significant in size and scale as some of the data breaches we’ve seen in recent months, like the Equifax breach or the Yahoo … more.
Regular Employee Training Essential in Healthcare Cybersecurity
… workforce members can either be guardians of the entity’s PHI or can, knowingly or unknowingly, be the cause of HIPAA violations or data breaches. more.
Hackers breached Pizza Hut website, stole financial info of customers
‘With data breaches inflicting such damaging effects on organisations, both financially and reputationally, businesses across all industries need to … more.
Cyber risks: Not if, but when
… J.P. Morgan, and more recently Ashley Madison and Bell Canada in Canada, having experienced firsthand the impact of massive data breaches. more.
Veriflow Co-Founder and CTO Brighten Godfrey to Speak at ONUG Fall 2017
… Continuous Network Verification platform predicts network behavior to provide assurance that business goals match the reality of the network. more.
The Radicati Group Releases Endpoint Security - Market Quadrant 2017
… Inc.’s latest market brief, Endpoint Security Market Quadrant 2017 offers a competitive analysis of the business endpoint protection market. more.
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