It’s one of my favorite times of the year in this industry — yup, the New Year. Why? Well, because I love fortune cookies (smashing them, not eating them), Zoltar, and a good horoscope, so, naturally, I look forward to reading the industry predictions.
With the cybersecurity landscape at a significant turning point, security executives must learn from last year’s major, disruptive breaches to prevent further attacks from impacting their businesses.
There’s a direct correlation between the amount of data being generated and consumed and the number of data breaches. And, as a result, cyberattacks are at an all-time high.
State Department remains silent on whether or not its systems were compromised
December 29, 2020
Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is calling on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide the Senate Foreign Relations Committee details on the extent of the recent Russian-backed SolarWinds cyberattack targeting the State Department along with other federal agencies.
More than 33 billion records exposed in last two years
February 25, 2020
DivvyCloud released its 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report, which substantiates the growing trend of data breaches caused by cloud misconfigurations and quantifies their impact on companies and consumers around the world.
In one of the most advanced financial services privacy breaches ever to occur in Australia, its largest bank lost control of 10 years’ worth of customers’ financial information when a subcontractor lost several tape drives containing banking statements from 2004 through 2014.