February 2, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Now that we’re firmly settled in the Age of the Customer, it’s time to take stock of the factors that are really going to drive business success — or failure — over the next few years. At Forrester, we’re betting our hats that privacy will be one a big one. In fact, we think that privacy is integral to each one of the 10 success factors in 2016.
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January 30, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
B.C.’s Education Ministry failed to properly provide adequate security surrounding the personal information of 3.4 million students and teachers, an investigation by the province’s privacy commissioner has found.
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January 28, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Another health insurer is facing a major healthcare data breach. Centene Corp. says it is missing six computer hard disk drives that contain the health records of about 950,000 individuals.
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January 27, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
If HMRC gets hacked, and its users’ data gets compromised, it could face compensation claims of more than £13 billion, a new report by digital authentication provider, MIRACL, suggests.
January 27, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
The fast food chain Wendy’s (NASDAQ: WEN) is investigating reports of a possible breach of credit card data, making it among the latest victims of cyber criminals.
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January 26, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
January 22, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has sent a letter to its customers telling them about a data security breach involving their personal information earlier this month.
The company says that on Jan. 13, the company replied by email to a customer inquiry and attached the wrong file to that outgoing email.
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January 21, 2016 | By admin |
Several U.S. health care organizations recently have disclosed data breaches potentially affecting thousands of individuals, including Blue Shield of California.
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January 21, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Backdoor attacks are going to increase in the coming year, as cyber criminals exploit patchy mobile security and SSL blindspots to gain access to private data and company networks. Many of the security products businesses rely upon are not equipped to monitor hidden gateways into the network. As a result, organisations will need to invest in plugging these gaps to ensure defences can mitigate against an increasingly varied and powerful threat landscape.
Read the full article: Networks and Mobile Devices under attack
January 18, 2016 | By Brock Terrano |
Hyatt Hotels recently announced that it had completed its investigation into a breach of its payment processing system that was first detected on November 30, 2015.
The investigation found that the attackers used malware to collected cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates and verification codes from systems at a total of 250 hotels worldwide
Read the full article:Hyatt Breach Affected 250 Hotels Worldwide
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