Data Security

Preventing breaches begins with understanding and protecting your attack surface. For most enterprises, their attack surface is huge. To help wrangle it, security professionals have struggled for years to use tools such as network mapper (nmap) or vulnerability scanners to discover and test the security of internet-exposed assets; these typically present a path of least […]

This week's breach roundup is led by a Alina Lodge breach notice stemming from the massive 2020 Blackbaud security incident and data theft.

Carnival has been hit by multiple cyberattacks since 2019, including a ransomware incident last summer.

The most pervasive wisdom about preventing damage from ransomware is to backup systems. FujiFilm and Colonial Pipeline in fact, restored from back-ups. So in an era of increased concern about ransomware, is solving the ransomware scourge as simple as investing in some backups? If only.

Experts revealed to SC Media what they believe are some of the biggest errors companies can make when notifying the public of a breach, from revealing too little or too much, to scapegoating or downplaying the incident.

Organizations often look to cybersecurity companies to protect them, but the Department of Justice and prosecutors in Georgia are pursuing criminal charges against a executive of a security company for aiding an alleged cyberattack on a Georgia medical center in 2018.