Tag: Data Breaches
Password Reuse Still Rife: 2021 Credential Exposure Report
Researchers at security solutions provider SpyCloud recovered over 4.6 billion records of personally identifiable information (PII) and nearly 1.5 billion stolen account credentials from...
Ukraine’s PrivatBank Suffers Data Breach; 40 Mn Customer Records on Sale
This is not the first time PrivatBank – Ukraine’s largest commercial bank – is in trouble. Security experts from Cybernews found an unknown cybercriminal...
Attackers are Using Fake Office 365 Pages to Phish C-Suite Executives
Security experts from Trend Micro uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign spreading fake Office 365 password expiration reports to compromise email accounts of C-Suite executives....
Google Chrome 88 To Fix Weak Passwords for Better Online Security
Google Chrome has introduced a new password security feature to prevent users from using weak and compromised passwords online. The new feature will be...
A Look Back at the Top 9 Data Breaches of 2020
At the beginning of the year, people celebrated the turn of the decade and readied themselves to strike off the “Things-to-Do” from their bucket...
Europol and European Commission Launch New Decryption Platform to Combat Encryption...
Europol and the European Commission jointly launched a new decryption platform to boost Europol’s encryption capabilities during criminal investigations. The innovative decryption platform, controlled...
Irish Data Regulator Fines Twitter $547K for 2019 Data Breach
Seems like Twitter’s is ending 2020 on a bitter note! From multiple data breaches to a series of celebrity account hacks, the social networking...
How Cyberattacks Cause Severe Hazards to Health Care Industry
Cyberattacks on health care organizations have become rampant in 2020. With multiple data breaches and ransomware attacks, the health care providers continued to be...
45 Mn Unique Medical Images Exposed Online via Unprotected Servers
Cybersecurity researchers from CybelAngel, a provider of digital risk protection services, uncovered a massive data leak incident that exposed millions of medical-related sensitive images,...
Insider Threats: A Byproduct of the New Normal
Despite the continuous security improvements, the concern over insider threats seems to be growing for organizations globally. The new distributed working conditions have also...
