Much more must be done to shore up the U.K.'s national infrastructure. "It's partly austerity, and it's partly what's happening in the global economy, but we've really seen an underinvestment, specifically in the critical national infrastructure," says LogRhythm's Ross Brewer.
Numerous technology firms now offer facial biometrics recognition search tools for big data sets. But information security expert Alan Woodward warns that these big data sets must be "considered and regulated very heavily" or else we'll be "living in 1984 without knowing it."
Humana is notifying individuals in multiple states that the company was a recent target of an "identity spoofing attack" that potentially compromised personal information of its members, including those participating in the health insurer's Go365 wellness programs.
Facebook has responded to more than 2,000 questions posed by U.S. Senate and House committees with 747 pages of answers, which reveal that Facebook was still been providing special access to user data to dozens of companies, six months after it says it had stopped doing so in 2015.
Old technology never dies, but rather fades "very slowly" away, as evidenced by there being 21 million FTP servers still in use, says Rapid7's Tod Beardsley. Rapid7's scans of the internet have also revealed a worrying number of internet-exposed databases, memcached servers and poorly secured VoIP devices.
California's legislature has quickly introduced and passed new privacy legislation, making the state's laws the strongest in the U.S. The new law gives consumers a raft of new rights, and aims to bring more transparency to the murky trade in people's personal information.
SOC requires lot of integration, customization and is costly making it tough for small companies to have on premise SOC, says Rajanikanth B, executive director at IARM.
What are hot cybersecurity topics in Scotland? The "International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security" in Edinburgh focused on everything from securing the internet of things the rise of CEO fraud to the origins of "cyber" and how to conduct digital forensic investigations on cloud servers.
Australian medical booking service HealthEngine says late Friday it notified 75 users of a breach that may have exposed some identifying information. The data breach is the latest in a string of problems for HealthEngine, which was caught tampering with patient reviews and using questionable marketing tactics.
An Equifax software engineer has settled an insider trading charge with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after he allegedly earned $77,000 after he made a securities transaction based on his suspicion that the credit bureau had suffered a data breach.
What are the biggest privacy and security concerns in healthcare when it comes to the use of big data and data analytics tools? Attorneys Elizabeth Mann and Brad Peterson explain what organizations need to know before they dig in.
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: ISMG's Managing Editor, Security and Technology, Jeremy Kirk, details Australia's HealthEngine caught in a data-sharing fiasco.
In response to Indian banks' slow progress in addressing outdated ATMs, the Reserve Bank of India has ordered all financial services firms in India to upgrade their ATMs in a phased manner, with a final deadline of June 2019.
Mirai-like, distributed denial of service attacks launched by IoT devices are an indication that DDoS may no longer be an external-only threat facing enterprises, warns Philippe Alcoy of Arbor Networks.
Ticketmaster is warning customers that it suffered a data breach after an attacker modified its third-party chatbot software to steal customers' payment card details. Software provider Inbenta Technologies says Ticketmaster should never have been running the JavaScript software on a payments page.
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