This year was a punishing one on the security front, with massive attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya causing massive business damage and unprecedented data breaches spawning chaos for customers of Equifax, Medicare, and Yahoo.
David Braue | 01 Dec | Read more
Experts throw up their hands as impact of mass breaches reaches “epidemic” proportions
David Braue | 09 Oct | Read more
Disruption and repetitional damage have become legitimate goals of cybersecurity activity
David Braue | 11 Sep | Read more
Russia’s cybersecurity activities have been the stuff of rumour and innuendo recently, but the country is even apparently being scapegoated by malware authors who are inserting poorly-constructed Russian words as decoys.
David Braue | 27 Feb | Read more
Yahoo has begun warning individual users that their accounts with the service may have been compromised in a massive data breach it reported late last year.
Grant Gross | 16 Feb | Read more
Australian consumers are still pretty poor at securing their information but those same consumers are unforgiving of businesses that do the same, a new study suggests. Similarly, breaches of online megalith Yahoo had caused its acquisition by Verizon to be pushed back, reports suggested.
David Braue | 30 Jan | Read more
Data breaches continue to get bigger and badder, with Yahoo announcing the compromise of 1 billion accounts – back in 2013, meaning that hackers had three years to abuse the breach. As with the other biggest data breaches suffered throughout the year, there were several things every user should do.
David Braue | 19 Dec | Read more
Verizon has signaled that Yahoo's massive data breach may be enough reason to halt its US$4.8 billion deal to buy the internet company.
Michael Kan | 14 Oct | Read more
Several studies have come out recently trying to get a handle on the total costs of a data breach, with a large variation in costs - from less than $1 million on average, to $6 million - based on the data sets and types of included costs. But the actual numbers could be several times higher.
Maria Korolov | 13 Oct | Read more
Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program "misleading," and said no such system exists.
Michael Kan | 06 Oct | Read more
Yahoo has reportedly searched through all of its users' incoming emails with a secret software program that's designed to ferret out information for U.S. government agencies.
Michael Kan | 05 Oct | Read more
Revelations that a massive database of deidentified Medicare data could be reverse-engineered led to the data set's pulling from the Internet even as Telstra Health faced accusations that it couldn't possibly resist the temptation to do bad things with sensitive health information after it was awarded a major health-information consolidation tender.
David Braue | 04 Oct | Read more
Yahoo's announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale -- it's the largest data breach ever -- and the potential security implications for users.
Lucian Constantin | 24 Sep | Read more
If you have an account with Yahoo and haven’t changed your password since 2014, now is the time to do it. The company confirmed today a copy of sensitive user account information was stolen from its network in “late 2014” and suspects the attacker was a state-sponsored actor.
Even as one-time Internet giant Yahoo is swallowed in a $6.5 billion acquisition, merger and acquisitions (M&A) experts have warned that due-diligence audits of companies targeted for acquisition often reveal cybersecurity risks that compromise compliance and could threaten the merger and acquisition activities.
David Braue | 01 Aug | Read more