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Strong passwords: 9 rules to make, remember and manage your login credentials

The security of your bank account, Netflix account and email inbox depends on how well you safeguard your passwords.

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15.5.2020

Password Attacks

Attacks on IoT devices and WebApps on an extreme rise for the Q3

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15.5.2020

Unpatched Vulnerabilities

CEOs quit social media to keep them secure | Avast

Cyber threats now command the corporate sector’s full attention. The post CEOs quit social media to keep them secure | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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15.5.2020

Business-Email-Compromise

CCPA privacy requests cost business up to $275k per million consumer records

Organizations who plan on manually processing CCPA data subject requests (DSRs) or data subject access requests will spend between $140k – $275k per million consumer records they have in their systems, according to DataGrail. The CCPA went into effect on January 1, 2020, giving consumers the right to know the data collected about them, to delete data about them, and ensure their data is not sold to third-parties. The report analyzed the number of requests … More → The post CCPA privacy requests cost business up to $275k per million consumer records appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020

Violations of Data Subject Rights

Nemty Ransomware Punishes Victims by Posting Their Stolen Data

Lawrence Abrams reports: The Nemty Ransomware is the latest cybercrime operation to create a data leak site to punish...

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15.5.2020

Ransomware

Ransomware Costs in 2019

2019 has seen ransomware costs higher than they ever have been and are expected to increase in 2020. It needs to become an unprofitable business to stop the attacks from hackers.

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15.5.2020

Ransomware

Banner Health agrees to $6 million settlement over 2016 breach

Jessica Kim Cohen reports an update on a 2016 breach covered on this site: Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million...

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15.5.2020

Illegal Personal Data Processing

Prison inmates’ sensitive data left exposed on leaky cloud bucket

A completely-avoidable data leak has exposed prescription records, mugshots, and other sensitive information related to an unknown number of prison inmates.

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15.5.2020

Cloud Storage Misconfiguration

Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

As an early domain name investor, Mike O'Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O'Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable -- corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.

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15.5.2020

Password Attacks