With apologies to Troy Hunt, the last thing you want to see in the morning as you're having your first cup of coffee and scanning the interwebz for cat videos is a notice from his "Have I Been Pwned" breach-alert service.
Payment-terminal maker VeriFone Systems says that attackers managed to access its corporate network in January, but that the intrusion and related breach was limited, has been contained and that any fallout appears to be minimal.
The Reserve Bank of India has mandated that all banks must report all unusual cyber incidents within two to six hours to enable issuing suitable cautionary advisories to other banks. Experts discuss the challenges financial institutions will face in complying with the new requirement.
What did Yahoo executives know about multiple data breaches and attacks that the company suffered, and when did they know it? Those questions have continued to dog Yahoo as it negotiates its sale to Verizon for the now-discounted price of $4.5 billion.
Australia's Parliament has passed a mandatory data breach notification law that requires some organizations to tell consumers and regulators about an incident within 30 days or face hefty fines. But one security expert says the law has gaps that could pose risks.
Televisions that spy on their users have long been a trope of dystopian fiction, including George Orwell's "1984." But the spying TV appears to be far from fictional, according to a new settlement agreement reached between the FTC and smart-TV maker Vizio.
The subscription-based breach notification service LeakedSource appears to have gone dry. Security expert Troy Hunt says the privacy writing has been on the wall for the site, owing to it selling access to stolen personal data.
U.S. authorities are reportedly investigating whether Yahoo should have notified investors faster about two separate data breaches that it suffered in 2013 and 2014. Until last year, one breach remained undetected and the full severity of the other was not understood.
A report foreseeing homegrown hacktivists showing their displeasure with President-elect Donald Trump by launching cyberattacks against U.S. government sites leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, the details behind the 1 billion-record hack of Yahoo.
Yahoo has the dubious distinction of having not just one but two record-shattering historical breaches come to light this year. The latest breach to be revealed, which dates back to 2013, involved the potential compromise of 1 billion accounts.
The U.S. Navy is set to begin notifying more than 130,000 current and former sailors that their personal information was "accessed by unknown individuals" after a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services employee lost a laptop.
Yahoo in 2014 spotted that an attacker - later revealed to have compromised 500 million accounts - was inside its network, according to a new SEC filing. With Yahoo's $4.8 billion sale to Verizon still pending, the admission adds to the search giant's complications.
Did security vendor Cylance lean too heavily on decade-old research into weaknesses in a still-used electronic voting machine in order to get pre-election day headlines? A company spokesperson says no.
Although India lacks a national mandate on reporting all data breaches to authorities and notifying victims, some larger banks have been reporting security breaches to the RBI - a hopeful sign.
Asked to explain the compromise of 500 million of its users' accounts, Yahoo appears to be trying to blame Russia. Of course, that would be an easy face-saving exercise for a publicly traded firm currently negotiating its $4.8 billion sale to Verizon.
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