Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
The online video game Fortnite that attracted over 350 million players within three years of its launch is setting another record. Thousands of stolen Fortnite…
The son of a family that owned an electronics store in Vietnam, Hieu Minh Ngo got his first computer around the age of 12. Attending…
Companies rely on contractors, and often give them user accounts with access to sensitive data, but the risk of contractor account compromise appears to be…
A complaint filed in federal court in California on Aug. 20 charges Uber’s former security chief with organizing a cover-up of a breach in which…
Whether a ransomware attack constitutes a reportable data breach under any data breach disclosure laws, regulations or other requirements is a vexed question, and according…
The attack was a classic – a criminal group stole sensitive files from the University of Utah before encrypting their files and threatened to release…
It takes two to four months for a ransomware attack to move from the initial security breach to delivery of the ransomware, so hundreds of…
Covid19 has hit hospitals and other health care institutions particularly hard, infecting workers, drastically reducing revenue and tearing into security defenses and exposing patient data…
Capital One will pay $80 million to settle regulators’ claims that its cybersecurity protocols were lax and inefficient. A Seattle-based software engineer hacked into a…
A hacker has published a list of plaintext usernames and passwords, along with IP addresses for more than 900 (as many as 1800 according to…
