Mexican officials are investigating a series of technical glitches that may have been a prelude to a large cyberattack affecting at least five banks, according to news reports. While the full scope of the incidents remains unclear, up to $20 million may have been stolen.
Speech recognition software vendor Nuance Communications says an unauthorized third party accessed one of its medical transcription platforms, exposing records for 45,000 people. The company has blamed the breach on a former employee, who accessed personal data from several of Nuance's clients.
Chili's Grill & Bar is warning customers that an unknown number of payment cards were compromised at an unknown number of corporate-owned locations earlier this year for a period of time it suspects lasted two months. Should Chili's have waited to alert customers until it had more information?
Eduard Goodman, global privacy officer of CyberScout, doesn't like the disorganized way most cyber incidents are handled now. Instead, he would like to see a more project management approach. Here are the benefits he foresees.
Incident response plans must be carefully designed to meet the needs of a specific organization, says attorney Ron Raether, who outlines important legal considerations.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned on Monday in the midst of a personal scandal, was known for being one of the nation's toughest state enforcers in cases involving breaches, privacy and fraud. So what happens next?
Equifax says it continues to field queries from U.S. lawmakers about the full extent of its massive 2017 data breach, which occurred after an attacker exploited its unpatched Apache Struts web application. Research finds that many more organizations are using unpatched Struts applications.
Security vendor ProtectWise says a series of operating mistakes has allowed it to gain insight into a group, believed to be affiliated with Chinese intelligence, that specializes in stealing code-signing certificates. The certificates allow for the signing of malware that's unlikely to raise security alarms.
The Ashley Madison breach of 2015 quickly became one the most famous of the high-profile hacks. Three years later, CISO Matthew Maglieri discusses the breach recovery and what he refers to as "cybersecurity in a world of discretion."
Twitter has apologized after it discovered that it had been inadvertently storing users' passwords in plaintext in an internal log, potentially putting them at risk. Twitter has blamed a bug for the fault and recommends all users change their passwords immediately.
We all know about May 25 and the enforcement deadline for Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. But what impact will GDPR have on cybersecurity programs? Danny Rogers of Terbium Labs weighs in on the topic.
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Cambridge Analytica shuts down, saying it's lost all of its customers, and Australia's Commonwealth Bank spots a big, bad potential data breach.
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Australia's Commonwealth Bank has confirmed that two magnetic tapes containing transaction information for 19.8 million accounts went missing two years ago after mishandling by a subcontractor. A forensic investigation concluded the tapes were likely destroyed, and no fraudulent activity has been detected.
Jan Koum, WhatsApp's co-founder, is leaving Facebook. His departure marks another exit of a high-level privacy and security advocate. If Facebook continues to lose those who could better influence the social networking site's worrying views toward user data, what does that mean for the rest of us?
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