Hackers selling 117 million LinkedIn passwords
On Wednesday, the professional social network company acknowledged that a massive batch of login credentials is being sold on the black market by hackers. Read more here
Survey: No slowdown in healthcare breaches
Nearly 90 percent of healthcare organizations were the victims of a data breach in the past two years, and 45 percent had more than five data breaches during that same…
Six More Banks Supposedly Hacked by Turkish Hackers
The Turkish hacker group Bozkurtlar, translated as the Grey Wolves, has supposedly leaked data on six more international banks during the past week. Read more here
One of the world’s biggest money transfer systems discovered ‘wide and highly adaptive’ hacking campaign
SWIFT, the messaging system used by 11,000 global financial institutions to send money to each other, said on Thursday that it had been hit by another malware attack on its…
Microsoft’s May 2016 patches fix a boatload of vulnerabilities, including a zero-day
Hello, zero-days. And yes, you should be busy patching them, but Adobe isn’t releasing one of the zero-day fixes for Flash Player until tomorrow (May 12)—even though it is currently…
Attorney general: Record number of data breaches reported this year
Your personal information is likely in the hands of scammers. That’s the message from security experts as New York State reports a record number of businesses have experienced security breaches…
Study: 23 percent of all data breaches occur in healthcare
A new Brookings Institution study finds that healthcare data breaches are increasing, despite growing public awareness, increased security assurances and rising government fines. Read more here
Solano College data breach exposes employee tax information
ROCKVILLE — A data breach Thursday at Solano Community College may have compromised the W-2 data of workers employed by the college in 2015, according to a press release issued…
Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report finds cybercriminals are exploiting human nature
NEW YORK, April 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cybercriminals are continuing to exploit human nature as they rely on familiar attack patterns such as phishing, and increase their reliance on ransomware,…
Healthcare In Top Spot For Number Of Data Breaches
Malware and unauthorized access remain key dangers for the security of healthcare data. Read more here