Data Security

San Francisco's city attorney filed a lawsuit against Equifax saying the credit monitoring firm failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Californian residents.

The program is designed to facilitate the sharing of threat indicators between government and the private sector.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton confirmed in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that a 2016 breach of the regulatory body's EDGAR document filing system was made possible due to a defect in custom software code that was subsequently remediated.

Equifax's president, Asia Pacific, Paulino do Rego Barros, Jr., will serve as interim CEO.

The Deloitte breach teaches us that we have many cybersecurity lessons to learn—even ones we already know.