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What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
Equifax has agreed to pay at least $575 million, and potentially up to $700 million, as part of a global settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial …

4 years after data breach, Slack resets 100,000 users’ passwords
Roughly 100,000 Slack users are getting their password reset and will have to choose a new one. The reason? During the data breach the company suffered in 2015, the attackers …

Small and mid-sized organizations remain especially vulnerable to persistent compromises
Despite sophisticated prevention security tools, small to mid-sized organizations continue to be especially vulnerable to long lasting breaches due to their inability to …

More than 2 million cyber incidents in 2018 created $45 billion in losses
The financial impact of ransomware rose by 60%, losses from business email compromise (BEC) doubled, and cryptojacking incidents more than tripled, all despite the fact that …

Do cloud apps make you a target for cyber attacks?
Almost half (49%) of businesses believe cloud apps make them a target for cyber attacks, a Thales research reveals. Surveying 1,050 IT decision makers globally, Thales’ 2019 …

British Airways is facing £183 million fine for 2018 data breach
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants British Airways to pay a £183.39 million (nearly $230 million) fine for failing to protect personal and financial …

Cybersecurity crisis communication: How to do it well
Riviera Beach is one of the several cities and towns in Florida which have recently been hit with ransomware. Its local government, like that of Lake City before it, decided …

Cloud security exacerbated by immature security practices
Enterprises are struggling to keep up with the rapid expansion of cloud within their businesses, according to Symantec. Surveying 1,250 security decision makers across the …

Human error still the cause of many data breaches
With the incidence of reported data breaches on the rise, more than half of all C-suite executives (C-Suites) (53%) and nearly three in 10 Small Business Owners (SBOs) (28%) …

2018 in numbers: Data breaches cost $654 billion, expose 2.8 billion data records in the U.S.
Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing over $654 billion to U.S. organizations, according to ForgeRock. Cyberattacks to U.S. financial …

Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach
Quest Diagnostics, a US-based company that offers medical testing services, has announced that a third-party billing collections company they use has been hit by a data …

How to write an effective data breach notification?
Data breach notifications sent by companies to affected customers are often unclear and not very helpful, University of Michigan researchers have found. The problem(s) The …
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