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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Happy 10th Birthday, Security Affairs

Security Affairs

I launched Security Affairs for passion in 2011 and millions of readers walked with me. Ten years ago I launched Security Affairs, the blog over the past decade obtained important successes in the cyber security community, but the greatest one is your immense affection.

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Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities

Security Affairs

Compromised data vary by individuals and organizations, it includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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Happy birthday Security Affairs … 11 years together!

Security Affairs

Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. Eleven years ago I decided to launch Security Affairs, a blog that is considered today one of the most valuable sources of the cybersecurity industry.

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Detecting and Preventing Insider Threats in the Cloud

McAfee

Organizations are less worried about unauthorized consumer cloud applications and are more concerned about the security of sensitive data in strategic enterprise cloud services. Cybersecurity incidents involving sensitive data in the cloud can be less frequent, but more damaging. US State of Cybercrime Survey 2016, 2017.

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ChatGPT: Cybersecurity friend or foe?

Malwarebytes

Why ChatGPT security concerns are both overblown and valid Artificial intelligence (AI) was once a science fiction cautionary tale—stories consistently warned against designing machines capable of surpassing human ingenuity. The program can help close the security knowledge gap by assisting in employee training.