Data Breaches

International credit bureau TransUnion says that hackers managed to breach a server operated by its South African division, and gained access to the personal information of individuals. According to an FAQ published by TransUnion South Africa, the cybercriminals gained access to the sensitive data by using the compromised credentials of one of…

Wall Street’s watchdog voted to unveil a rule on Wednesday that aims to enhance how public companies disclose when they experience a breach, and how soon. Under the proposed Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) measures, a company would have to spell out when it experiences a risk and what strategies…

Using data gathered from analyzing more than one billion sites, the 2022 State of Phishing and Online Fraud Report highlights the trends that drove digital scams in 2021. In this, the company’s third year of tracking phishing and scam data, we can see with no uncertainty how the pandemic has…

The Greek data protection authority has imposed fines of 5,850,000 EUR ($6.55 million) to COSMOTE and 3,250,000 EUR ($3.65 million) to OTE, for leaking sensitive customer communication due to a cyberattack. As the agency says in an announcement, COSMOTE infringed at least eight articles of the GDPR, including violating its duty to…

Privacy breaches are happening all the time and they can have dire consequences. When (not if) you experience a breach, the stakeholder trust that’s been built in your organization is on the line. How you handle the breach can affect how you maintain and, if necessary, rebuild that trust. How you communicate when…

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned today that it will go after any US company that fails to protect its customers’ data against ongoing Log4J attacks. “The FTC intends to use its full legal authority to pursue companies that fail to take reasonable steps to protect consumer data…

Most decision makers in IT management are having to spin so many plates, all at the same time, that there’s always a danger one of them will eventually fall to the floor and smash. The problem is, just because you’ve attended to a cyber security issue, or decided that it’s…

About one in four companies revealed personal information to a woman’s partner, who had made a bogus demand for the data by citing an EU privacy law. The security expert contacted dozens of UK and US-based firms to test how they would handle a “right of access” request made in…

In a development security pros feared, attackers are actively targeting yet another set of critical server vulnerabilities that leave corporations and governments open to serious network intrusions. The vulnerability this time is in BIG-IP, a line of server appliances sold by Seattle-based F5 Networks. Customers use BIG-IP servers to manage…

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.…