Washington has become the first U.S. state with broad consumer health data protections with the signing of the "My Health, My Data" Act by Gov. Jay Inslee, StateScoop reports.
CISOs face the complex challenge of protecting organizations against an expanding array of cybersecurity risks. While the role requires constant adaptation to protect against new threats, CISOs often bear the blame when defenses are breached. In this segment Kunal Anand, CTO & CISO, Imperva, discusses the evolution of the role and what aspiring pro...
Major Australian telecommunications provider Optus has been hit with a class action lawsuit involving more than 100,000 current and former customers in relation to a widespread data breach last September that impacted nearly 1.2 million clients, Reuters reports.
Nearly 256,000 consumer accounts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had their confidential information exposed in a data breach involving a former employee who had sent such data in 14 different emails to their personal email account, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
At a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, lawmakers blasted the shady dealings of the data brokers’ industry and examined possible solutions.
In prepared testimony for an April 19 House Oversight Committee hearing, DC Health Link’s Mila Kofman revealed that a misconfigured server was behind the leak to two server files.
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