US utility company falls victim to a ransomware attack which initially costs the business just $25k. However, improving its control environment and implementing new security infrastructure ends up costing the business over $2 million.
The event act...
Somewhat ironically a company offering to protect individual’s identities online exposes their encrypted customer’s identities online and the ability to decrypt them.
Given their company's mission and product's intention, this had the potential to ...
After suffering a data exposure of at least 13GB of customer information covering 117,000 accounts the actions of one of the UK’s largest motoring associations provides a great insight into the importance of incident response.
An initial incorrect ...
In 2014, this event was one of the biggest hacks. The online auction giant disclosed the attack in May 2014 stating that it exposed names, addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of 145 million users. Financial information which was stored...
In September 2017, one of the big four global accountancy firms and also one of the biggest names in cyber security consulting (Gartner’s security consultancy of the year in 2016) disclosed that they had been the victim of a cyber attack which comprom...
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