Posted on 10 September 2015 by Danna Bethlehem
The breach of the IRS affected 334,000 taxpayers, whose personal information including Social Security numbers and home addresses, were compromised. Learn the key lessons from this attack.
Posted on 24 September 2015 by Thales DIS
t’s been over a year since Heartbleed was uncovered, a vulnerability in OpenSSL which can enable encryption keys, and therefore usernames, passwords and other information, to be revealed. So… what have we learned?
Posted on 08 October 2015 by Thales DIS
Cyber risk is difficult to define or predict, a challenge exacerbated by general reticence to declare security breaches when they happen, for fear of reputational damage — a factor highlighted by US ratings agency Standard and Poors.
Posted on 11 November 2015 by Thales DIS
After a list of Comcast email accounts were offered for sale in an underground store, consisting of customers’ Comcast email addresses and associated passwords, Comcast—one of the largest providers of cable, internet and phone services in the US—forced a password reset on those accounts. Of the 600,000 accounts offered for sale, 200,000 were found by […]
Posted on 03 December 2015 by Thales DIS
As 2015 comes to a close, and IT, security and compliance leaders draw on the developments of the past year to plan for a more digitally secure 2016, here are some takeaways to keep top of mind when sketching plans on the whiteboard or reviewing financial statements. The Cost of a Data Breach The IBM […]
Posted on 21 December 2015 by Thales DIS
In 2015, data breaches got much more personal than previous years with more than 53% of data breaches being the theft of personal identities and information. Expect that to continue in 2016.