May 9, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
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 so far this year.
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May 9, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
A new Brookings Institution study finds that healthcare data breaches are increasing, despite growing public awareness, increased security assurances and rising government fines.
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May 2, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
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 by the college district.
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April 28, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
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, where data is encrypted and a ransom is demanded, finds the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report.
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April 25, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Malware and unauthorized access remain key dangers for the security of healthcare data.
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April 19, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Cyberattacks were the top cause of healthcare data breaches in 2015, according to a recent study by Symantec Corporation on healthcare cybersecurity.
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April 13, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
In addition to nine “mega-breaches” of personal data in 2015, tens of millions of personal records were likely exposed or stolen by cyber criminals the same year but went unreported because the companies or entities involved chose to keep the size of the breach a secret, according to a new cyber security report.
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April 11, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
The leak of more than 11.5 million documents from a law firm in Panama that specializes in creating off-shore tax havens for wealthy clients around the world is being dubbed an unprecedented event — the largest leak in history.
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April 6, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be fixed with a simple update, The Associated Press has learned.
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April 1, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
A hacker posted several thousand Norfolk Admirals customers’ email accounts, addresses and names on Wednesday, but the team’s online security firm says the data breach affected only about 250 customers.
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