Tag: Data Breaches
Trend Micro Reports 10% Increase in Ransomware Attacks in 2019
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro stated that it found 10% increase in ransomware detections, despite a 57% decrease in the number of new ransomware families....
Ransomware Attacks and Data Breaches on U.S. Schools and Colleges Triple...
According to a report from the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, the K-12 public school districts and education agencies across the U.S. suffered a total...
Personal Information Belonging to 144,000 Canadians Breached
Several government departments in Canada have compromised the personal information of 144,000 individuals across 7,992 data breaches that occurred over the past two years,...
FBI Seizes WeLeakInfo.com for Selling Breached Data Online
The authorities of the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice seized the domain “weleakinfo.com” for selling sensitive information that was hacked from other...
Cloudflare to Offer Free Cybersecurity to Federal Campaigns
Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and security firm, will offer free cybersecurity services to the U.S. Federal Election campaigns.
The San Francisco-based firm stated the new...
Ryuk Ransomware Took Down U.S. Coast Guard Operations
The officials of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) recently disclosed a Ryuk ransomware infection that took down the entire corporate IT network of a...
CISO MAG Rewind: Biggest Financial Data Breaches of 2019
By Rudra Srinivas
The Banking and Financial sectors were hit with a constant stream of cyber-attacks when compared to other sectors. According to Intsights Q1...
Corporate Email is a Root for Accidental Data Breaches: Survey
According to a survey, titled Current Status of Data Privacy Compliance, from Email security provider Egress, around 44 percent of employees admit that they’ve...
6 Times Data Regulators Churned Out High Penalties in 2019
By Rudra Srinivas
Data breaches and security incidents are becoming increasingly expensive. The risk of data breaches got higher after introducing the European Union’s General...
Singapore to Adopt New Data Protection Measures
In order to boost cybersecurity and tackle next-generation cyber threats, the Singapore government decided to adopt new data protection measures. The government also established...
