People of an entire country were put at risk with Ecuador data breach of 20 million user information. The breach has accelerated a data privacy law that has been under consideration for months. Read More
South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned that banks in the country had been experiencing repeated DDoS attacks and ransom notes were delivered to a number of staff email addresses. Read More
The Most Potent Banking Malware Receives Updates Allowing Hackers More Control Over Infected Devices
Anubis, one of the most potent banking malware, has received new updated features including one that allows hackers to detect when the user is looking at their Android phone. Read More
New AttackIQ report shows a clear lack of accountability and responsibility for cybersecurity risk from security leaders with 40% of them not reporting to the board of directors at all. Read More
Third party data breach struck Quest Diagnostics’ billing vendor which exposed patients’ sensitive information including social security numbers and medical information. Read More
Phishing scam perpetrated by attackers posing as vendors cheated the school district of approximately $2.3 million before the business compromise scheme was discovered about a month later. Read More
Recent Instagram data scraping by HYP3R has raised many privacy concerns as the trusted Facebook marketing partner was found scraping and re-packaging social media data for advertisers. Read More
California once again takes the lead with new data privacy law. While tech companies are not delighted and will continue to fight, it is still a better alternative to the November ballot which would have been more problematic. Read More
New report shows nearly 75 percent of U.S. federal agencies are still woefully unprepared and deemed to be “at risk” or “at high risk” of a cyber attack. Read More
Enhanced 911 location data would make it possible for emergency first responders to more accurately find and locate people making 911 calls. What are the privacy implications since the biggest U.S. telcos have been secretly selling location data of their customers to a shadowy network of data brokers and data aggregators? Read More
