Data from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) found that state and federal government agencies disclosed of 203 data breaches throughout the past five years. What’s more, the 203 breaches resulted in
While recent data breaches and hacking attempts on government entities have spotlighted growing cybersecurity concerns with Russia, it turns out that Russia has a cybersecurity problem of their own. Kapersky
Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency (NSA), recently explained to the Wall Street Journal CEO Council that “uneven” cooperation among the private sector and the government has
An 18-year-old named Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai created a malware bug that was designed to send DDoS attacks to public service answering points (PSAPs). The virus worked by first compromising iPhones
The Lansing Board of Water and Light was forced to pay a $25,000 ransom due to a cyber-attack that held the company’s main controls hostage. The attack originated when an
In what preliminary reports are indicating could be one of the biggest breaches of 2016, the Friend Finder’s Network (FFN) and the six properties operating under its domain, including Adult
Over the past several weeks, we have seen a spark in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks across the globe. Kaspersky Lab, an international cybersecurity provider based in Moscow, has
A group of researchers from Indiana University Bloomington, University of California Santa Barbara and the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered more than 600 cloud repositories that contained malware and other
President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will hold its final public meeting this month, which will prepare policy recommendations for the transition to the new Trump administration. President Obama
The recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on internet service provider Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn), which disabled the websites for major corporations such as Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon,
