After a Tesco Bank breach exposed data of 9,000 accounts and the theft of $3.1 million, a cybersecurity firm uncovered boasts on underground forums from two months ago that the company was an easy target.
The Baxter Credit Union (BCU) reported that on October 11 it learned an employee email account had been compromised to send spam and other unsolicited emails.
Researchers from a collection of universities in China and the US have apparently created a method of discovering passwords by looking for the interference that body movement makes in WiFi signals.
Today, many organizations’ executive teams and boards of directors conflate cybersecurity and risk. Risk management is a broader practice than security alone, but cybersecurity is an increasingly “big ticket item” on boards’ agendas—alongside other more traditional risk discussions—since it’s clear that a major breach can impact the organization in meaningful ways.
