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Security issues among British companies are extremely high, with 75% of firms admitting they have experienced a data breach in the last year. The data comes from a research ordered by Cyren, a cloud-based security company, and indicates that when Read More …
An unauthorized third party accessed the company’s proprietary code and learned how to forge cookies. Yahoo believes this is the same actor that caused the 2014 data breach. “The outside forensic experts have identified approximately 32 million user accounts for Read More …
Since Yahoo disclosed two mega-breaches late last year, its executives have met almost daily with CEO Marissa Mayer for working sessions focused on improving the company’s cybersecurity posture. Employees have also received weekly security presentations from Yahoo CISO Bob Lord Read More …
A Boeing employee inadvertently leaked the personal information of 36,000 of his co-workers late last year when he emailed a company spreadsheet to his non-Boeing spouse. News of the breach surfaced earlier this month after a letter (.PDF) from Boeing’s Read More …
Amid the hustle and bustle of the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco last week, researchers at RSA released a startling report that received very little press coverage relative to its overall importance. The report detailed a malware campaign that Read More …
Cyber risk is a 21st century business reality and something that can’t be ignored. The sheer pervasiveness of these risks, matched with the evolution into far more complex attacks, means the C-Suite has to get serious about managing cybersecurity. I Read More …
The United States was the main target of hacker attacks last year, resulting in a record number of data breaches. According to a report from Risk Based Security, during 2016 there were 4,149 data breaches which resulted in the exposure Read More …
Yahoo is in big trouble with US authorities due to how it handled the massive data breaches it disclosed last year, more specifically its failure to inform investors of the issues at an earlier time. The United States Securities and Read More …
British firms were each subjected to an average of almost 230,000 cyber attacks in 2016, according to analysis from business internet service provider Beaming. The average volume of attacks hitting individual company firewalls passed the 1,000 per day mark for Read More …
Detroit’s Big Three automakers are the latest big companies to become victims of hackers, with a new report now claiming that employees’ names and social security numbers might have been exposed during a breach. Details are very sketchy at the Read More …
