CSO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

The cost of a data breach is not easy to define, but as more organizations fall victim to attacks and exposures, the potential financial repercussions are becoming clearer. For modern businesses of all shapes and sizes, the monetary impact of suffering a data breach is substantial. This figure represents a 2.6%

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2022

Data breaches can be quite a complicated issue for organizations. Disclose the breach, notify those affected, and talk with your security team about how to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future. T-Mobile data breach. The company disclosed the data breach quickly after discovering it.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Paul speaks with Caleb Sima, the CSO of the online trading platform Robinhood, about his journey from teenage cybersecurity phenom and web security pioneer, to successful entrepreneur to an executive in the trenches of protecting high value financial services firms from cyberattacks. Caleb Sima is the CSO at Robinhood.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2023

AT&T is informing customers about a data breach at a vendor’s system that allowed threat actors to gain access to AT&T’s Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI). The incident came to light after customers posted the email communication from AT&T on community forums to know if it was legitimate or email fraud. “We

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest bottlers of Pepsi beverages in the US, has reported a data breach affecting the personal information of several employees.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now, mushrooming concern around a possible data breach stemming from a now-fixed Twitter flaw is poised to drive the company further down unless Twitter takes quick action.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 11, 2023

On January 6, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to update its data breach reporting rules for telecommunications carriers. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

The security incident was the latest to affect the service in recent times in the wake of unauthorized access to its development environment in August last year , serious vulnerabilities in 2017 , a phishing attack in 2016 , and a data breach in 2015. To read this article in full, please click here

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This week, the former Chief Security Officer of Uber, Joseph Sullivan, was found guilty on one count of obstruction of justice and one count of misprison, the act of concealing a felony from authorities, arising out of his handling of a 2016 data breach at the company.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This post is focused on stopping data breaches with SSE. This subject is critical because legacy data protection strategies and technologies no longer suffice in the modern business world. Our previous topic revolved around securing hybrid work. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Password management company LastPass, which was hit by two data breaches last year , has revealed that data exfiltrated during the first intrusion, discovered in August, was used to target the personal home computer of one of its devops engineers and launch a second successful cyberatttack, detected in November.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

With an ever-increasing number of cybersecurity threats and attacks, companies are becoming motivated to protect their businesses and customer data both technically and financially. million — more than twice the global average of $4.35 The global cyber insurance market was valued at $13.33 billion in 2023 to $84.62 billion by 2030.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

In theory, enterprises should not only have security measures in place to prevent a data breach but should also have detailed plans for a response in the event of a breach. In other words, when a company gets hit with a serious data breach, the best-laid plans often go out the window.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

The global average cost of data breaches reached an all-time high of $4.35 About 60% of the breached organizations raised product and services prices due to the breaches. million in 2022 compared with $4.24 million in 2021, according to a new IBM Security report. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

GoDaddy WordPress data breach timeline. The latest organizations to fall foul of WordPress security vulnerabilities is domain registrar GoDaddy, which recently went public on unauthorized third-party access to its Managed WordPress hosting environment, impacting up to 1.2 million active and inactive customers.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Samsung has opened up about a data breach it detected on or around August 4, affecting the personal information of some of its customers. “In In late July 2022, an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s US systems.

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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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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ride-hailing giant Uber has confirmed that it is responding to a cybersecurity incident as reports emerge that the firm has suffered a significant network data breach forcing it to shut down several internal communications and engineering systems. Attacker announces Uber breach through compromised Slack account.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

However, a spokesperson for the CAO’s office did confirm the data breach and pledged to communicate updates from law enforcement to affected legislators and staff.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

A pending class action lawsuit accuses online payments giant PayPal of failing to adequately safeguard the personal information of its users, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft and related ills at the hands of the unidentified perpetrators of a data breach that occurred late last year.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The biggest eye-opener for me was how quickly it was exploited," he tells CSO. Check out this checklist for minimizing damage from a data breach. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] The first unauthorized login happened within 34 minutes. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that impacted nearly 50 million people, including current, former and prospective subscribers. Victims of the T-Mobile or any other breach where personal data is stolen should be aware of follow-on attacks and take steps to mitigate them.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

Case in point: A federal judge recently ordered Uber Technologies to work with its former CSO, Joseph Sullivan (who held the position from April 2015 to November 2017), and review a plethora of Uber documents that Sullivan has requested in unredacted form for use in his defense in the upcoming criminal trial.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sizable fines assessed for data breaches since 2019 suggest that regulators are getting more serious about organizations that don’t properly protect consumer data. Marriott was hit with a $124 million fine, later reduced, while Equifax agreed to pay a minimum of $575 million for its 2017 breach.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 21, 2020

Joseph Sullivan allegedly paid off $100K to the hackers responsible for a 2016 data breach, which exposed PII of 57 million passengers and drivers.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How much does a data breach cost? Here's where the money goes. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] The idea behind these attacks is to compromise a third-party piece of software from a VAR or systems integrator or infect an industrial process unbeknownst to IT. [

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

European data protection authorities have issued fines of €1.1 billion) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since 28 January 2021, according to the annual GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey by international law firm DLA Piper. Check out this checklist for minimizing damage from a data breach. |

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

DNA Diagnostics Center, a DNA testing company, will pay a penalty of $400,000 to the attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio for a data breach in 2021 that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide, according to a settlement deal with the states’ attorneys general.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

The volume and velocity of data breaches are on the rise, and so are the costs. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Government-led cybersecurity initiatives are critical to addressing cybersecurity issues such as destructive attacks, massive data breaches, poor security posture, and attacks on critical infrastructure,” Steve Turner, security and risk analyst at Forrester, tells CSO.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This has dramatically changed the attack surface of the typical enterprise in the past few years, with more suppliers and service providers touching sensitive data than ever before. [ How much does a data breach cost? Here's where the money goes. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

KrebsOnSecurity reviewed the Web sites for the global top 100 companies by market value, and found just five percent of top 100 firms listed a chief information security officer (CISO) or chief security officer (CSO). Not that these roles are somehow more or less important than that of a CISO/CSO within the organization.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you are like 80% of respondents to the Trend Micro’s biannual Cyber Risk Index (CRI) report, you expect to experience a data breach that compromises customer data in the next 12 months. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]. Learn the 7 keys to better risk assessment. |

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CSO Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

Billions of login credentials have landed in the hands of hackers over the past several years as a result of data breaches. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

“Credential stuffing attacks are emulating the sorts of requests that a legitimate user would make,” Troy Hunt, security researcher and founder of data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, tells CSO. Attackers are asking: What does it look like to make a legitimate request? How can we emulate that?

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Yesterday, a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict to Joe Sullivan, the former CSO on charges of “obstruction of the proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission and misprision of felony in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber” according to a notice published by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2023

Imagine your company experienced a major data breach, but instead of notifying the appropriate parties and taking necessary actions, you were instructed to keep it quiet! was also leading the list in terms of the percentage of respondents who claimed they'd been told to keep a breach concealed (71%).

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