Don’t Fall Victim to Breach Fatigue

Oct 18, 2019 7:04:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

People shouldn’t let news of data breaches dissuade them from trying to protect their information, according to security researcher Ray [REDACTED]. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Human ...

Extremely Embarrassing 250,000-record Data Breach At Hookers.nl

Oct 14, 2019 10:50:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The data of 250,000 users of Hookers.nl, a forum where experiences with prostitutes and escorts are exchanged, have been stolen and offered for sale on the internet. It concerns e-mail ...

The Massive Data Breach Of Australia's Largest University Began With A Spear Phishing Attack

Oct 9, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Cost of a Data Breach is Expected to Rise by Two-Thirds Over the Next Five Years

Oct 8, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The increase in attack effectiveness and remediation costs, along with new compliance fines are causing the cost of a data breach to rise significantly.

Scam Of The Week: Yahoo Massive Data Breach Settlement Phishing Attacks

Sep 28, 2019 11:19:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yahoo is close to reaching a $117.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over a series of data breaches that affected users between 2012 and 2016 — and your employees are ...

99 Percent Of All Misconfigurations In The Public Cloud Go Unreported

Sep 28, 2019 8:22:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Charlie Osborne at ZDNet wrote: "Today's data breaches often seem to be caused not just by malware infections or external threat actors, but human error, insiders with an ax to grind, and ...

Employees Are the Reason 70% of Financial Companies Have Suffered Security Incidents in the Last Twelve Months

Sep 16, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from cybersecurity vendor Clearswift shows untrained employees are clearly the source of incidents that plague an overwhelming majority of companies in the financial ...

Financial Phishing Campaigns on the Rise

Aug 29, 2019 7:01:35 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 1900 new potential bank phishing sites were registered in the first half of 2019, according to researchers at NormShield. Based on the increase in new suspicious domains ...

Report: Data Breach in Biometric Security Platform Affecting Millions of Users

Aug 14, 2019 7:22:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s team recently discovered a huge data breach in biometrics security platform BioStar 2. Once stolen, fingerprint ...

3 Important Facts to Take Away From the New Data Security Law

Aug 12, 2019 6:59:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Lecio De Paula, Jr., Director of Data Privacy, KnowBe4. New Hampshire joins Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan in enacting a new data security law directed at insurers modeled after ...

Bad Guys Exploit CapitalOne Breach to Push Backdoor Trojan

Aug 7, 2019 3:56:29 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The bad guys are now exploiting news of the CapitalOne breach to push a malicious backdoor trojan via a phishing email purporting to offer a Windows Security Update. See the attached ...

5 Things You Need to Know About Facebook’s $5 Billion Fine

Jul 30, 2019 4:11:58 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Lecio De Paula, KnowBe4's Director of Data Privacy. On July 24, 2019, it was announced that Facebook, Inc. will pay a 5 billion dollar penalty to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...

You Don't Want THAT In Your Wallet

Jul 30, 2019 9:46:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Capital One has announced a data breach that has exposed the personal information of 106 million people that includes transaction data, credit scores, payment history, balances, and for ...

Is Equifax Paying Up To 700 Million... Or Is It 1.4 Billion?

Jul 23, 2019 7:26:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In a settlement with the FTC, consumers affected by the breach are eligible for up to $20,000 in a cash settlement, depending on damages they can prove. But different news sources claim ...

Attacker’s Use of OneDrive as a Malicious File Host Jumps Over 3200% in Q1

Jul 16, 2019 3:23:16 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The need for reputable hosting services to make phishing scams involving malicious files look legitimate has caused a rise in popularity for Microsoft’s cloud-based file sharing service.

Evite Invites Over 100 Million People to Their Data Breach

Jul 16, 2019 3:19:37 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Larry at Bleepingcomputer wrote: "The data breach monitoring service Haveibeenpwned.com has added a database dump of almost 101 million Evite users who had their information exposed when ...

The Stock Market Doesn’t React Well to Data Breaches

Jul 9, 2019 1:03:57 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The latest data from UK-based research firm, Comparitech, shows that organizations who suffer a data breach continue to suffer in the stock market well after.

Massive Cyberheist Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector

Jun 20, 2019 6:48:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

AMCA, a medical billing collections agency that was hacked last year in an incident believed to impact millions of medical patients is now seeking a federal bankruptcy court’s protection ...

[Heads-Up] How Hackers Use Ransomware To Hide Data Breaches And Other Devastating Attacks

Jun 10, 2019 6:15:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Different sources claim that ransomware attacks are either going up or going down. The very real threat remains though and it is clear that the bad guys are moving from consumers as their ...

“Monster” Data Breaches Result in an Average Cost of $347 Million

May 28, 2019 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Data breaches in the hundreds of millions of records have made the news over the last two years. The latest report from Bitglass covers the results and repercussions of the breaches.

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Don’t Fall Victim to Breach Fatigue

Extremely Embarrassing 250,000-record Data Breach At Hookers.nl

The Massive Data Breach Of Australia's Largest University Began With A Spear Phishing Attack

The Cost of a Data Breach is Expected to Rise by Two-Thirds Over the Next Five Years

Scam Of The Week: Yahoo Massive Data Breach Settlement Phishing Attacks

99 Percent Of All Misconfigurations In The Public Cloud Go Unreported

Employees Are the Reason 70% of Financial Companies Have Suffered Security Incidents in the Last Twelve Months

Financial Phishing Campaigns on the Rise

Report: Data Breach in Biometric Security Platform Affecting Millions of Users

3 Important Facts to Take Away From the New Data Security Law

Bad Guys Exploit CapitalOne Breach to Push Backdoor Trojan

5 Things You Need to Know About Facebook’s $5 Billion Fine

You Don't Want THAT In Your Wallet

Is Equifax Paying Up To 700 Million... Or Is It 1.4 Billion?

Attacker’s Use of OneDrive as a Malicious File Host Jumps Over 3200% in Q1

Evite Invites Over 100 Million People to Their Data Breach

The Stock Market Doesn’t React Well to Data Breaches

Massive Cyberheist Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector

[Heads-Up] How Hackers Use Ransomware To Hide Data Breaches And Other Devastating Attacks

“Monster” Data Breaches Result in an Average Cost of $347 Million

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