75% U.S. States and Territories Graded ‘C’ for Poor Cybersecurity
A survey from cybersecurity firm SecurityScorecard revealed the overall security posture of all 56 U.S. states and territories, which are leading up to the...
Paying Ransom is Now Illegal! U.S. Dept of Treasury Warns
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that paying ransom to cybercriminals is now illegal. In an official...
92% U.S. Organizations Suffered Data Breach Due to Vulnerabilities in Vendor Ecosystems
A study from cybersecurity solutions provider BlueVoyant revealed that 92% of organizations in the U.S. suffered a security breach last year due to vulnerabilities...
U.S. House Passes Bipartisan IoT Security Bill to Strengthen IoT Networks
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which is intended to improve the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices...
Twitter Pledges a “Safe and Secure 2020 U.S. Election”
The 2020 U.S. election is just a couple of months away and opportune threat actors are bound to make attempts of attacking the accounts...
70% of the U.S. Population Affected by Health Care Data Breaches
Health care providers have been the primary targets of cyberattacks, with several data breaches and ransomware attacks making headlines in the last few years....
PII of 46,000 U.S. Veterans Compromised in a Data Breach
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Management disclosed a data breach incident that exposed the sensitive information of around 46,000 veterans....
CIPL and DSCI Stress on Enabling Cross-border Data Transfers Between India and U.S.
The Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and the Centre for Information Policy Research (CIPL) have jointly released a report on enabling responsible cross-border...
U.S. Military Personnel Lost $379 Mn to Fraudulent Schemes in Last 5 Years
An investigation from AtlasVPN revealed that the U.S Military personnel have lost around $379.6 million to a range of fraudulent schemes from 2015 to...
Repository Blunder! GitHub Data Leak Incidents Impact Over 200,000 U.S. Patients
Netherlands-based ethical hacker Jelle Ursem, in association with Databreaches.net, uncovered nine data breach incidents at multiple health care providers. The data breach exposed medical...
