Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A computer hacker who peddled the stolen personal data of 200 million U.S. citizens to other cybercriminals from his Vietnamese home was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. Hieu Minh Ngo pleaded guilty to a string of federal charges including…
Americans most anxious about financial data theft
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans According to a new study, US consumers would rather be robbed or have their email account hijacked than see their financial information and social security details stolen or compromised. More than three in four (77%) Americans say that having their financial…
Welcome to your privacy nightmare! Is big business getting out of hand with Big Data?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “When businesses are allowed to gather personal information, predict your behaviour and make decisions based on it, this is the information wild west. Welcome to the nightmare.” Richard Hollis, director of information security consultancy the Risk Factory, believes that the ability…
US: More Than 21 Million Affected by Government Data Breach
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers stole Social Security numbers, health histories and other highly sensitive data from more than 21 million people, the Obama administration said Thursday, acknowledging that the breach of U.S. government computer systems was far more severe than previously disclosed. The scope of the…
A hacker cartel is using a mysterious Flash vulnerability to steal sensitive business data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers are using a mysterious, as yet undiscovered, Flash vulnerability, to steal sensetive business data from Macbook and Windows users, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky Lab revealed the campaign in a threat advisory, warning a hacker group, known as Wild…
First on CNN: U.S. data hack may be 4 times larger than the government originally said
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Washington (CNN)The personal data of an estimated 18 million current, former and prospective federal employees were affected by a cyber breach at the Office of Personnel Management – more than four times the 4.2 million the agency has publicly acknowledged. The…
Feds Violate Data Breach Reporting Requirements They Would Impose on Private Companies
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The federal government’s Office of Personnel Management apparently discovered in April amassive security breach of its systems in which the personally identifiable information at least 4 million government employees was rifled through by Chinese government hackers. The OPMwaited at least two…
Expert: People Need to Know their Data is Private
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Most people do not realize how much their data is being used for purposes they do not understand, internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier told Arutz Sheva on the sidelines of the fifth annual International Cybersecurity Conference in Tel Aviv. “Largely,…
Countering Cyber Attacks With Big Data And Analytics
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Executive Summary Organizations are challenged today as never before to protect their information assets, as well as the underlying networks and services that gather, store, process, and transmit this information. The same better, faster, cheaper information and communication technologies (ICT) that…
Learning from Mistakes: What These 4 Big Data Breaches Teach Us
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Nobody is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes, and anyone can fail — especially in the business world. IBM’s “2015 Cost of Data Breach Study” shows that the average total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million, representing a 23 percent increase since…