As medical devices incorporate connectivity, they provide greater opportunities for convenience, service, and information for consumers and companies, but also are increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. In this environment, Attivo Networks and Becton, Dickinson and Co. (BD) have validated a deception solution for medical technology...
Weebly, a San Francisco-based company that has allowed more than 40 million people create websites with since 2007; will start sending notification letters to all of their customers on Thursday, informing them of a data breach that occurred eight months ago.The breach, affecting 43,430,316 customers,...
The cost of poor healthcare security might have just gotten more expensive.Earlier this month, Phoenix-based Banner Health announced the largest data breach of any hospital so far this year. Hackers gained access to the system's servers, including those processing credit...
The aim of the study is to assess the economic impact of incidents that affect CIIs in EU, based on existing work done by different parties, and set the proper ground for the future work of ENISA in this area.In detail, our aim is...
Monitoring and analytics firm Datadog has admitted to falling victim to a data breach and is recommending that all of its users change their passwords immediately.The firm provides cloud metrics for cloud providers across a variety of services, apps and systems while offering a software-as-a-service...
The Safe in Police Hands? report, based on freedom of information (FOI) requests, reveals that between June 2011 and December 2015 police officers and staff were responsible for at least 2,315 data breaches.The greatest number of data breaches were by the West Midlands Police (488),...
A million and a half customer records have strolled out the door of T-Mobile Czech Republic in an employee's pocket.The customer service staffer attempted to sell the datasets but T-Mobile refused to reveal further detailed information, citing an ongoing police investigation.It is unknown how much...
Hackers have stolen information relating to around 45 million accounts from VerticalScope, a Canadian media company that runs numerous support forums on various topics. Over 1,000 support forums and online community websites on home, tech and sports have been breached as a result of the...
When security executives design the slide decks for their board room presentation about the financial risks of data breaches, they'd better increase the numbers this year. In two separate studies out today by the Ponemon Institute and Deloitte Advisory, traditional data breach costs are on...
Among the 288,012 complaints the agency's Internet Crime Complaint Center received from businesses and consumers (pdf), the most common were so-called Business Email Compromise crimes, scams based mostly around social engineering and computer intrusion: these 7,838 complaints amounted to losses of over $263 million. In...