Jackson County Pays $400k Ransom
Posted March 13, 2019 in Ransomware, Data Breach, Malware
Jackson County, Georgia finds its coffers down by $400,000 this week thanks to cybercriminal ransom. A ransomware...
Verifications.io Breach Leaks Over 800 Million Records
Posted March 13, 2019 in Data Breach, Malware, Compliance
Charlie Osborne at ZDNet has revealed a data breach of epic proportions. Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered...
Why You Need a Fractional CISO
Posted March 8, 2019 in Digital Forensics, Data Breach, Cloud Security
Chief Information Security Officers play an essential part in the success of your business security, yet recent...
Misconfigured Server Exposes Nearly 1 Million Patient Records
Posted March 6, 2019 in HIPAA, Data Breach, Cloud Security
Over 974,000 people are being notified by The University of Washington Medicine. For a three-week period in December,...
A Conversation With NCBA’s Privacy & Data Security Committee Chair
Posted February 26, 2019 in Malware, Data Breach, Compliance
I sat down with Alex Pearce of Ellis & Winters LLP, the current chair of North Carolina Bar Association’s Privacy...
WordPress Critical Flaw Discovered: Update Now
Posted February 25, 2019 in Data Breach, Cloud Security, Malware
Updating your WordPress content management software to version 5.0.3 is URGENT! RIPS Technologies told Hacker News of...
SIM Swapper Faces Ten Year Sentence
Posted February 25, 2019 in Cryptocurrency, Data Breach, Malware
Joel Ortiz, a twenty-year-old college student from California accepted a plea deal and now faces a ten-year prison...
Dating Sites Post Big Security Issues in February
Posted February 25, 2019 in Data Breach, Compliance, Cloud Security
Valentine’s Day week was not a good week for dating sites. Three online dating sites, OkCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel,...