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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Oct 17, 2017
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
IRS puts Equifax contract on hold
… taxpayers despite recently suffering one of the biggest data breaches in history (see Lawmakers question IRS’s $7.25M no-bid contract with Equifax) … more.
Your Card Has Been Compromised, Now What?
But financial institutions have a much more powerful weapon to fight data breaches. This weapon is putting fraud protection in the hands of consumers … more.
Whoosh, and thieves have all your personal info - Delta Farm Press
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee after hackers broke into the credit … more.
Credit Unions Can Get Ahead of a Looming Cybersecurity Threat
Credit unions that still use TLS 1.0 may be more susceptible to data breaches and attacks that could access customer data, critical files and processing … more.
6 hard truths IT must learn to accept
But technologies like Docker-based containers for cloud data and AI-driven automated breach detection are helping to mitigate the problem. And after … more.
Earning Customers’ Trust in Our Day of Data Breaches
They are among the thousands of companies that have experienced data breaches this year alone. The Equifax hack was one of the largest, and … more.
Invest In Barracuda’s Cloud Future
Large data breaches and security threats continue to increase the requirement of high level security at corporations. The recent Equifax (EFX) issue … more.
Why Fortinet Inc. Could Be a Gold Mine for Growth Investors
The strong results aren’t surprising given the rise in data breaches of late, including the recent crack in Equifax’s (NYSE:EFX) security. But in Fortinet’s … more.
D&H Boosts Cybersecurity Focus with Cisco Products for Partners
Finally, Cisco Ransomware Defense uses an architecture approach DNS layer protection, endpoint protection, email threat protection, sophisticated … more.
Wake-up call when cybercrime gets closer to home - Irish Examiner
For many years organisations protected their valuable and sensitive information by building a fence around those assets using endpoint protection … more.
Letter: Not knowing something is not an excuse
Child molesters, sexual assaults,Title IX violations, lack of a Title IX coordinator, failed bond initiative, data breaches of students’ personal information … more.
Automating Threat Detection: The Importance of Machine Learning
… technologies ranging from SIEM [Security Information and Event Management], vulnerability assessment, endpoint detection, threat intelligence and … more.
Data breaches climb to record highs
Data breaches climb to record highs …. The Identity Theft and Resource Center and CyberScout reported that data breaches have risen to 791 in the … more.
Delayed delivery? Pizza Hut waits two weeks to disclose payment card data
SC Magazine … turn meant that the fraudulent data stolen facilitated further cybercrime in the form of credit card fraud, which is always the worry with data breaches.“. more.
Mideast IT security spend to hit $1.8 billion in 2017
… security and risk-related hygiene processes such as patch management, regular and scalable vulnerability scanning, centralised log management, … more.
WoW’s biggest legacy server project is forced to relaunch after accusations
PCGamesN Covering up this operation has apparently led to the support team being unable to set up a log management server and generally do those things you … more.
D&H Boosts Cybersecurity Focus with Cisco Products for Partners
… and zero-day threats, and many of them incorporate robust platforms that support active threat hunting, response, and remediation capabilities. more.
Sophos UTM showing duplicate Endpoint Protection Computer entries since
Hello,. I have a problem with my Sophos UTM Home Firewall. Since updating from 9.502-4 to 9.503-4, all my endpoint computers (9 in case) are … more.
How Visibility Provides Stronger Healthcare Cloud Security
SIEM solutions are made up of security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) technology. The solution is deployed to … more.
Realistic Cybersecurity for Small- and Mid-Sized Enterprises
Pop-up warnings can also be used to provide real-time messages to users when they engage in computer or network behavior that raises risks. more.
How Visibility Provides Stronger Healthcare Cloud Security
SIEM solutions are made up of security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) technology. The solution is deployed to … more.
Hyatt Suffers Second Data Breach in Two Years
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced two data breaches this year, and HEI Hotels & Resorts, which owns and operates Marriott, Starwood, … more.
Smack back that big hack attack
The Equifax and Yahoo data breaches, and numerous others before of banks, retailers and others with millions to spend and vast IT and … more.
Proper management techniques help with securing endpoints
Once you realize that 44% of all data breaches are successful because of known vulnerabilities that haven’t been rectified, it gets you thinking that … more.
Unilever on data privacy, control and delusion
We’re living in a world that is highly volatile, compound this with massive data breaches and horror stories about identity theft and you can see why … more.
Proper management techniques help with securing endpoints
If one area of endpoint security is left uncovered, it will undermine any other endpoint protection mechanisms your system has. Ensure, too, that any … more.
Data breaches among financial services on the rise
Virtually every second global financial services organisation was victim of a data breach sometime in the past, according to a newly released Thales … more.
Top UK Organisations Still Too Exposed to Cyber Threats According to New
RealWire (press release) … and de-centralised web management practices are leaving UK organisations vulnerable to cyber-attacks and high profile data breaches. more.
Calling all millennials: your cybersecurity industry needs you
These shortages are undermining the security industry’s ability to protect organisations and businesses from a sharp rise in data breaches, computer … more.
Forty per cent of financial firms have suffered data breaches in 2017
As well as finding that 40 per cent of financial firms have been hit by data breaches in 2017, it also revealed that 21 per cent have been targeted on … more.
Protect Your Brand And Reputation With These 5 Ways To Minimise Data
BCW (blog) Building your business’ reputation and brand image takes time years even and costs money. Investment in marketing, customer services and PR … more.
Telkom, MTN, EOH have high cyber exposure risk
The Cyber Exposure Index (CEI) is based on data collected from publicly available sources in the dark Web, deep Web and data breaches. “From that … more.
Pizza Hut: Breach Impacted ‘Small Percentage of Customers’
… individuals what’s happening as soon as possible, and invest in the appropriate breach-detection services to stop cybercriminals before they access … more.
Symantec Endpoint Protection - Hardware Devices list
[Policies > Policy Components > Hardware Devices]. more.
Kaspersky Lab Receives Platinum Award as Part of the 2017 Gartner Peer
Business Wire (press release) Kaspersky Lab Receives Platinum Award as Part of the 2017 Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Awards in Endpoint Protection Platforms. more.
Life of: A Hacker Turned Cybersecurity Founder
For example, it is very crowded when it comes to firewalls, anti-virus, endpoint protection agents and other traditional tools. That said, it gets far less … more.
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