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  • French TV station's systems severely damaged in cyber attack

    The French TV station TV5Monde suffered a major cyber-attack on the evening of the 8th of April resulting in all of its eleven channels being taken off air for three hours. At 10:00 p.m. Paris time the eleven channels for TV5Monde, which reach over 260 million people worldwide, went blank. At the same time the station's Facebook page was hijacked and its website defaced.

    Brian Honan | 10 Apr | Read more

  • Nearly a billion records were compromised in 2014

    In first nine months of 2014, after 1,922 confirmed incidents, criminals managed to compromise 904 million records. Many of the incidents reported in 2014 were record setting, including twenty of them that resulted in the compromise of more than a million records each.

    Steve Ragan | 18 Nov | Read more

  • Information overload: Finding signals in the noise

    Signal-to-noise ratios are hard to manage. As a security professional, you want the threat data, you want the attack notifications and alerts, and you need intelligence. But, when there's too much coming in, those alerts and notifications fall to the wayside. They're easily dismissed and ignored.

    Steve Ragan | 30 May | Read more