by Ionut Arghire | Sep 28, 2019 | Cybersecurity
200,000 Sign Petition to “Force Equifax to Pay for Their Greed” Over 200,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) holds Equifax properly accountable for the data breach that impacted 148 million Americans in 2017....
by Kevin Townsend | Sep 11, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Hacked
Tide Foundation Creating Marketplace Where PII Can be Safely Sold The Australian Tide Foundation has announced details of a distributed ledger technology (DLT) password protection system using ‘splintering’ to deliver password security that is massively...
by Associated Press | Sep 10, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Officials with the pension system for retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and other state law enforcement officers say the FBI is investigating after computer hackers stole $4.2 million in funds. A notice posted on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System...
by Mike Lennon | Aug 29, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure giant VMWare (NYSE: VMW) announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire endpoint security firm Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK) in a deal representing an enterprise value of $2.1 billion. Following the close of the all-cash...
by Mike Lennon | Nov 29, 2018 | Cybersecurity
CyberGRX, a Denver, Colorado-based startup that has created what it calls a “global cyber risk exchange”, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding, bringing the total amount raised by the company to $59 million. Through its recently launched...
by Linda Carroll | Sep 28, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Hacked
(Reuters Health) – Health data breaches are on the rise, a new study shows. While the largest number of data breaches occurred at health care providers’ sites – such as hospitals and physicians’ offices – it’s health care plans that account for the...
