On October 28, officials from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security alerted healthcare executives of an “imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.”  The ransomware attacks could begin as soon as this weekend. One security...

A post on the cyber security blog “Ride the Lightning” from October 1, 2020, discussed the difficulties a company faces when it’s hit with ransomware.  Does the business pay the ransom or not, and if so, how does one negotiate with the hackers? Paying the ransom does...

During 2016, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an investigation into Uber in connection with a data breach that occurred in 2014. During this investigation, Uber was hit with another breach from hackers that stole a database containing personal...

Over the years, Apple products have been touted as more secure than Microsoft Windows. While Apple does have strong security, a big reason for this perception in the marketplace is due to the fact that Microsoft Windows is more widely used in companies and...

Nonprofit software and data services giant Blackbaud is facing a class action lawsuit with the US District Court District of South Carolina after donors’ data was hacked by cyber criminals. Hackers breached Blackbaud’s systems on February 7, 2020, but the intrusion...

Residents of South Dakota recently received a letter from the Department of Public Safety stating that they may have been affected by an information data breach on July 19 that targeted the DPS Fusion Center database used to share COVID-19 patient names and addresses...

Less than a year since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, Walmart is being sued for violating the new data regulations. After an unspecified incident, cyber-criminals were able to access customers’ names, addresses, financial information, and...

Hacking, malware, and social engineering get a lot of attention as potential sources of loss in the cyber insurance world, and with good reason – 2019 data from a cyber-first carrier indicate these three vectors accounted for 62% of that carrier’s claims.[i] But that...

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that a disgruntled employee was recently sentenced to a year and a half in prison and three years of supervised release after he was found guilty for hacking his former employer, costing the company more than $800,000 in...

Code42 recently released their 2020 Data Exposure Report and surveyed 4,505 knowledge workers in the US and Europe detailing the damage caused by insider threats. With immense amounts of data being shared every day through emails, AirDrops, messaging, and mobile...