A website bug was responsible for exposing millions of email addresses belonging to customers of LifeLock, an identity protection service acquired by Symantec in 2016 for $2.3 billion. Source: Identity Theft Protection Service Accidentally Exposes Identities – Nextgov...
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By Matt Southmayd Recently, there have been questions raised as to why corporations have been slow to be more vigilant about Cybersecurity. In the scheme of a large organization, it is often deprioritized because the minimal impact to the bottom line is a risk that is deemed acceptable to the busine...
By Matt Southmayd Recently, there have been questions raised as to why corporations have been slow to be more vigilant about Cybersecurity. In the scheme of a large organization, it is often deprioritized because the minimal impact to the bottom line is a risk that is deemed acceptable to the busine...
By Bob Gourley Lets start with some good news: Sometimes problems can only be solved after there is widespread situational awareness, and now that cyber security and cyber threats are going mainstream, more and more people are being made aware of how serious this threat of stolen health care data is...
By Bob Gourley The 2015 State of the Union address was full of technology related content. Here are key takeaways from the perspective of a CTO: The President showed respect for something many American’s may not have heard of, but you dear readers know very well: Coding! In the context of educ...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Cyber Priorities Still Trump Big Data, Cloud And Mobile, Study Finds – A recent government-wide study by Lockheed Martin has found that the priority level to agency of these huge trends pale in comparison to the simple need to...
Scott Cosby is a friend I’ve known professionally through his work as VP of Products and Operations at Invincea. I recently watched a video which featured Scott demonstrating a typical Spear Phishing attack and how Invincea mitigates that challenge. Invincea built their capability based on an unde...
Three bills cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee in a markup session yesterday, bringing federal standards for breach notification and data security one step closer to reality. The three bills, proposed by Chairman Leahy (D-VT), Senator Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senator Feinstein (D-NH), would requir...