We have been explaining the risks of third party data access for years, and this week Ericka Chickowski of Dark Reading put together an excellent article on some of the costs and concerns associated with it: Data Breach Costs: Beware Vendor Contract Fine Print Organizations often end up paying the consequential costs of data breaches [...]
With Halloween right around the corner, there are some articles that highlight spooky and frightening tales of data loss. While you’re probably not reading this in a dark room full of jack o’lanterns, these are good reads to send a shiver or two up your spine. (And make you shake your head at a few [...]
Network World’s Tim Greene reported that “about 2.1 million of the state’s roughly 6.6 million residents had some form of personal data put at risk in 1,166 reported theft incidents, says Attorney General Martha Coakley, according to a report in the Boston Globe. She was citing numbers gathered from the start of 2010 through this [...]
Congress is trying to make hacking government networks a felony, but how effective would that really be as a deterrent? Carole Theriault of Sophos shares our sentiments on this: It’s no easy task to track down skilled hackers as they are intent on keeping their anonymity, Carole Theriault, a senior security consultant at Sophos, wrote [...]
Another day, another breach. Yesterday Citigroup was yet one more company that disclosed thieves had accessed private data: Statement From Citigroup, Inc.: During routine monitoring, we recently discovered unauthorized access to Citi’s Account Online. A limited number – roughly one percent – of Citi North America bankcard customers’ account information (such as name, account number [...]
