A month after Equifax reported a massive data breach, the credit-reporting agency TransUnion hired a full slate of new cybersecurity-focused lobbyists in Washington D.C. According to a federal ethics disclosure, TransUnion revealed it would focus on “issues affecting data...
The Andrews Labor Government in Victoria on October 9, 2017 appointed John O’Driscoll as its first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
While making the announcement, Special Minister of State Gavin Jennings said, “John O’Driscoll’s extensive experience working across information technology...
The Atlantic magazine recently became a victim of a massive phishing scam, in which job seekers and freelance journalists were targeted. The magazine staffers came to know about the scam on October 5, 2017.
In an email, Atlantic Media General...
Days after the U.S. Senate barred the federal agencies from using products from Kaspersky Lab, Russian hackers have reportedly stolen data from the country’s National Security Agency (NSA) contractor's home computer, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The contractor,...
It has been revealed that Iranian hackers were behind the major data breach at Deloitte, one of the ‘big four’ accountancy firms. They pulled it off via a seriously convincing fake Facebook post. The highly-active hacker crew known as...
An annual global survey conducted on September 3, 2017, during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Ontario revealed that issues such as cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are in the priority list of CIOs. Ninety-five percent of CIOs surveyed believe that cyber...
Even as cybersecurity remains one of the top threats, protection against the same is surprisingly not a major issue for UK-based small and midsized business (SMBs). Cybersecurity company Duo Security recently conducted a new research with YouGov and 1,009...
There is lot more to be done in information and technology governance, suggested a new research led by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). In terms of overall governance, cybersecurity policies and defenses were cited as top corporate...
In one of the biggest data breaches ever reported in India, Seqrite Cyber Intelligence, a unit of BSE-listed Quick Heal Technologies, on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, tracked a broadcast advertisement that claims to have "secret access" to database dump...
In December 2016, Yahoo had claimed that more than one billion accounts were compromised in the infamous 2013 breach. However, Verizon Communications that acquired Yahoo for $4.48 billion on Tuesday revealed that all three billion of company’s accounts were...
