Most people in the world would describe it as a company “admitting they’ve been hacked.”
But if you’re the breached company and want to apply the maximum amount of PR spin, you might instead issue a release saying you’re “announcing a data security event affecting customer data.”
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Morrisons didn’t know it, but in 2014 it had a huge problem.
The UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, with over 500 stores, had a disgruntled member of staff who had access to sensitive data, such as the payroll information of 100,000 current and former employees.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu wasn’t told he was working on Equifax’s breach notification website, but when he worked it out he used the information for his financial advantage.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly spy on victims.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
The Pentagon has admitted that up to 30,000 military workers and civilian personnel have had their personal information and credit card data exposed following a security breach.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Online criminals are planting cryptomining code on victims’ Windows computers, using the camouflage of an update to Adobe Flash Player.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Getting rid of hardcoded default passwords is not enough. There is a long way to go before we can feel confident that IoT devices have become significantly safer.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
New research has revealed that business email compromise is being made easier for any criminal to add to their arsenal. Is your company doing enough to protect itself?
Read more in my article on the Tripwire blog.
Once again, a way of bypassing the iPhone’s passcode lock to expose users’ photos and contacts has been discovered.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A Taiwanese bug hunter says that he will livestream his attempt to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page this weekend.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
An Australian teenager who hacked into Apple’s network on multiple occasions over several months and stole sensitive files has been told that he will not be imprisoned.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Women’s fashion retailer SHEIN has suffered a major security breach that has exposed the personal information and passwords of over six million customers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A US court has sentenced the creator of a notorious service that helped malware authors avoid detection by anti-virus software to 14 years in prison.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Hundreds of thousands of security cameras are believed to be vulnerable to a zero-day vulnerability that could allow hackers to spy on feeds and even tamper with video surveillance recordings.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Three men who operated and controlled the notorious Mirai botnet in October 2016 have been sentenced to five years of probation.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
If you were to make a list of the most common causes of security breaches, it is phishing attacks that would surely dominate.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
