Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2023

District Judge William Orrick sentenced former Uber CISO and former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor Joe Sullivan to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service for his role in concealing a massive data breach at Uber from the public and from the FTC. While the court rejected the government’s.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2023

Joe Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Uber, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and 200 hours of community service for covering up a cyber attack on the company’s servers in 2016, which led to a data breach affecting over 50 million riders and drivers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2023

As the world continues to face unprecedented cyber threats, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are facing a growing number of challenges in their roles. In 2023, these challenges are likely to increase, and CISOs will have to be well-equipped to overcome them. Failure to do so can result in hefty fines and penalties.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

CISO Magazine , a publication dedicated to covering issues near and dear to corporate chief information security officers everywhere, has graciously awarded this author the designation of “ Cybersecurity Person of the Year ” in its December 2019 issue. KrebsOnSecurity is grateful for the unexpected honor. More at cisomag.com.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

GoDaddy WordPress data breach timeline. In a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing , Demetrius Comes, GoDaddy’s CISO, announced that the organization had discovered unauthorized access to its Managed WordPress servers. November 17, 2021: GoDaddy discovers unauthorized third-party access on Managed WordPress.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Nearly half of CISOs will change jobs by 2025 due to stress caused by the risk of being breached while trying to retain staff, according to the Gartner report, Predicts 2023: Cybersecurity Industry Focuses on the Human Deal. Although burnout is nothing new, it did become more visible and common during and after COVID-19.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 29, 2022

How CISOs handle the ethical issues around data breaches can make or break their careers. Don't wait until a breach happens to plot the course forward.

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Dark Reading

MAY 5, 2023

Tell other CISO's "you got a break," judge says in handing down a three-year probation sentence to Joseph Sullivan.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 10, 2023

The post ‘Extraordinary, Egregious’ Data Breach at House and Senate appeared first on Security Boulevard. Capitol Trouble: Senators, representatives and staffers suffer PII leak. Could it finally kickstart some action?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 3, 2023

T-Mobile has fallen victim to yet another data breach, its second one in 2023 , adding to the already long list of breaches the telecom giant has experienced in recent years. Despite efforts to address the data breach, the fact the company has experienced multiple breaches in recent years could have lasting consequences.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Joe Sullivan's lawyers have claimed his conviction on two felony charges is based on tenuous theories and criminalizes the use of bug bounty programs.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In 2019, Boston-based online booze company Drizly had a data breach that exposed the personal data of about 1.2 The post Drizly FTC Breach Case May Put CISOs on the Hook for Civil Liability appeared first on Security Boulevard. million customers.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Ransomware and data breaches pose a massive risk to organizations, resulting in loss of customer trust and shareholder value, reputation damage, hefty fines, and penalties. More than half ( 61% ) of CISOs report to a board and board members are increasingly interested in what CISOs have to say.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2023

Everybody within an organization should work to establish and maintain good cybersecurity habits and measures, but much of the security burden falls on the chief information security officer (CISO). Below are some key insights for any CISO to take into consideration.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2023

A new report from Bitdefender found that although IT leaders have an obligation to report attacks, over 42% of them have been told to keep quiet when a breach should have been reported. The post 70% of US IT Leaders Told Not to Disclose Data Breaches appeared first on Security Boulevard. Shockingly, in the U.S.,

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2023

On January 11, 2023, presiding United States District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco denied the motion of Joe Sullivan, the former CISO of Uber, for a judgment of acquittal. The post Former Uber CISO Conviction Affirmed by Trial Court appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2022

Data breaches can be quite a complicated issue for organizations. No matter how good, or bad, your cybersecurity is, sophisticated threat actors always seem to find a way to make life difficult for a CISO. T-Mobile data breach. The company disclosed the data breach quickly after discovering it.

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Digital Guardian

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Meanwhile, the FTC is amending its data breach reporting rules, CISA may be seeing budget cuts, and a high-profile CISO was charged with fraud. A recent spike in ransomware has prompted dozens of countries to agree to stop paying ransoms. Catch up on it all in this week's Friday Five!

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Earlier this month, former Uber CISO (and former federal cybercrime prosecutor) Joe Sullivan was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco for concealing information related to a data breach at the ride-sharing app company from the Federal Trade Commission.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The post How to Calculate the Cost of a Data Breach appeared first on Hyperproof. The post How to Calculate the Cost of a Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard. But what does a.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A Uber breach verdict was handed down that could prove highly impactful to CISOs and CSOs in the near and distant future. The post “How will the Uber Breach Verdict Affect the CISO Role in the Future?” The post “How will the Uber Breach Verdict Affect the CISO Role in the Future?”

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Security Boulevard

MAY 25, 2021

Cybersecurity has always been a significant challenge for businesses, mostly due to the increasing financial and reputational cost of data breaches. The post 2021 Cybersecurity: Mitigating Mobile Security Risks for CISOs appeared first on The State of Security.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Popular email marketing service MailChimp recently fell victim to another data breach, this time caused by a successful social engineering attack on its employees and contractors.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Truth, transparency and trust are the three T’s that all CISOs and CSOs should embrace as they march through their daily grind of keeping their enterprise and the data safe and secure. By way of background, Uber’s former CSO faces a five-felony count superseding indictment associated with his handling of the company's 2016 data breach.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2023

I do worry about organizations answering the provenance question, but the rest is spot on." Insight #3 " ChatGPT confirmed a data breach this week due to an insecure third-party library being used. The post Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/5 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2021

Will your organization someday lose a multi-million dollar contract because of a Shadow IT-related data breach? This comes after the company, Insight Global, announced a data breach impacting more than 70,000 Pennsylvania residents and their diagnosis or exposure to COVID-19. Reaction to this Shadow IT data breach.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 6, 2023

LAS VEGAS — One fundamental reason some 7,000 or so IT pros are making the trek here this week is that no one ever wants to get caught in the crossfire of a devastating data breach.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Often inadvertent data breaches stem from a well-meaning employee trying to meet the needs of clients but without the technical systems to facilitate. Their database of phone numbers, along with other key information about our phones’ usage and characteristic, makes them more valuable to hackers than your average data breach.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2022

Multiple breaches, including the massive 2017 data breach at the credit reporting agency Equifax , have been traced back to unpatched vulnerabilities—a 2019 Tripwire study found that 27% of all breaches were caused by unpatched vulnerabilities, while a 2018 Ponemon study put the number at a jaw-dropping 60%.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2023

A review of the executives pages published by the 2022 list of Fortune 100 companies found only four — BestBuy , Cigna , Coca-Cola , and Walmart — that listed a Chief Security Officer (CSO) or Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in their highest corporate ranks. Nor is the average pay hugely different among all these roles.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

Zero trust provides a risk-based approach to access control and data protection, allowing organizations to enforce granular access controls based on user roles, responsibilities, and context, and minimize the risk of data breaches and compliance violations.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 21, 2021

So what happens when the Federal Trade Commission or other powerful body baselessly accuses your company of wrongdoing where a data breach is concerned? The post CISO Stories Podcast: He Fought the FTC Over a Breach and Won appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Security circles are all aflutter regarding the guilty verdict of Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Uber, on charges of obstructing justice and actively hiding a felony. The post Uber CISO Verdict: It’s the Cover-Up appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

The 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is out. Like most folks in the cybersecurity industry, we downloaded it and pored over the contents to see what was new and relevant and surprising.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

Other major companies to recently install a new CISO include Uber and Square. Two major themes emerged from the research and interviews conducted with CISOs. The first is that developing human connections is more critical to a CISO’s early success than mastery of the technical details. Twitter headquarters.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Cisco's 2020 CISO Benchmark Study links a robust patch policy and collaboration to smaller data breaches.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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