Delayed breach notifications open door to regulatory fines
As more data breaches occur everyday and more data privacy regulations come into force, such as EU GDPR, organizations are beginning to make data governance and data …
Evernote employees will be able to read notes only if users allow it
Evernote has recently announced that, starting on January 23, 2017, Evernote users’ unencrypted notes will be accessible to some Evernote employees. The change to the …
Growth rates of cryptographic keys and certificates
A new study conducted by Dimensional Research evaluated current and projected growth rates of cryptographic keys and digital certificates in the enterprise for 2016 and 2017. …
One billion users affected in newly revealed Yahoo hack
Yahoo has revealed that it’s been the victim of another hack and massive data breach that resulted in the compromise of information of a billion users! What happened? …
The economics of ransomware revealed
70 percent of businesses infected with ransomware have paid ransom to regain access to business data and systems. In comparison, over 50 percent of consumers surveyed said …
Google publishes eight national security letters
Have you ever wondered what a national security letter (NSL) received by Google looks like? Well, wonder no more, as the Internet giant has published eight of them. Along with …
Consumers worry more about cybercrime than physical crime
Consumers are more worried about cybercrime than physical world crime, according to Sophos. The survey polled 1,250 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. …
Risky sites have never been easier to exploit
46% of the Internet’s top 1 million web sites, as ranked by Alexa, are risky. This is largely due to vulnerable software running on web servers and on underlying ad …
Joomla vulnerability can be exploited to hijack sites, so patch now!
If you’re running a website on Joomla, you should update to the newly released 3.6.5 version as soon as possible – or risk your site being hijacked. The newest …
Healthcare IT professionals are overconfident
A Dimensional Research study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the efficacy of seven key security controls, which must be in place to quickly detect a …
ENISA says crypto backdoors are a bad idea
“History has shown that technology beats legislation, and criminals are best placed to capitalise on this opportunity,” the European Network and Information …
Corporate Office 365 users hit with clever phishing attack
Corporate Office 365 users are being targeted by phishers using a clever new trick to bypass email filters and the default security protections of the Microsoft service. The …