The Dangers Of Hitching Your Wagon To Some Else's Horse

Back in the day, I was a pretty avid Google Reader user. For those of you too young to remember it, Google Reader was a very cool thing: it was an RSS reader, but it was also a social reader because people could follow you and see what kind of

Our Daily Breach - 2024/10/14

It's a happy Canadian Thanksgiving for everyone except the libraries of Calgary.

Our Daily Breach 2024/10/11

The Internet Archive gets DDoS'd and breached by hacktivist group. The rage is palpable.

Our Daily Breach 2024/10/10

Gasp! Comcast lied about the impact of its data breach.

Our Daily Breach 2024/10/09

ADT files 8-K disclosing a breach of employee data. The company goes on a journey believing that no client is impacted.

Our Daily Breach 2024/10/08

Credit Monitoring firm CreditRiskMonitor gets breached. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Ransomware is a business decision.

Depending on who you ask, bouncing back from ransomware attacks will cost organizations anywhere from 5 to 20 million US dollars. That's not loose change, but that's nothing that will make a dent on the bottom line of a significant number of organizations. If you do

Our Daily Breach 2024/10/07

Today’s breach may not be breaking news, but it will likely be remembered as one of the most monumental cybersecurity fiascos in corporate history. National Public Data (NPD) had already earned a top spot on the scoreboard of shame for leaking the names, addresses, phone numbers, and, in some

Our Daily Breach 2024/10/04

Today's story is a tale of two breaches. From January to July 2022, two file directories were publicly available on the internet. Anyone with the right URL could have casually browsed the deeply personal health information of 600,000 inmates across California, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina. These

Organize your Incident Response Program - pt 1

A well-organized cyber security incident response (IR) program can certainly make the difference between a bad day and a bad week in the face of a serious incident, but with some extra work up front you can set yourself up for great metrics and reporting programs, organized alert tuning, and

Our Daily Breach - 2024/10/03

In the near-empty convenience store, an elderly Quebecois man shouts into his phone, his voice a mix of desperation and frustration. “My love, I need that money you promised me!” His words echo off the shelves, disrupting the quiet. He pulls the phone away from his ear, covering it with

Our Daily Breach - 2024/10/02

"Give us each day Our Daily Breach, and forgive us our sins of unrestricted access for all employees. Lead us not into the temptation to repeat the failures of those we chronicle." After two weeks of reviewing the evidence, a federal jury convicted former Epsilon Data Management senior