Concerns that European’s data may no longer be safe. By Phil Muncaster The European Commission has said a new Executive Order from Donald Trump will not affect the EU-US Privacy…
Month: January 2017
Breach notification website LeakedSource allegedly raided
Forum post to a known marketplace says servers were subpoenaed. By Steve Ragan LeakedSource, a breach notification service that exposed some of 2016’s largest data breaches, might be facing a…
Uber pays hacker US$9,000 for partner firm's bug
Ransomware protection service opened Lockheed Martin, Adobe data to attackers. Darren Pauli Russian penetration tester Vladimir Ivanov has reported a bug in anti-ransomware backup service Code42 that could have seen…
Ransomware makes California nursing school feel ill
Instructor brought malware in from home through USB drive. By Ryan Francis About three months ago, an instructor at Gurnick Academy, a California-based nursing school, had his biggest fear come…
Kaspersky security researcher arrested in Russia
A cybersecurity researcher working for anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab in Russia has been arrested. Ruslan Stoyanov, a member of Kasperksy’s investigations team, was arrested in December but news of his…
A Quarter of Firms Don’t Know if They’ve Been Breached
Majority of organizations detected an attack the same day it occurred… By Phil Muncaster More than a quarter of firms have been breached in the past 12 months, but 23%…