Equifax breach shows why companies need to act against known vulnerabilities
One of the key “claims to shame” of the Equifax breach was that the vulnerability the attackers exploited was long known, published four months before Equifax discovered the breach. Many claimed this...
View ArticleMulvaney puts brakes on Equifax probe: Reuters
White House budget director and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) acting Director Mick Mulvaney has dialed back the agency’s investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax, Reuters...
View ArticleSchumer: Trump administration rigging the system to help 'most egregious...
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the system to benefit the most egregious corporate actors,” citing reports that the Consumer...
View ArticleEquifax hires new chief information security officer
Equifax has hired a new chief information security officer (CISO) following the abrupt retirement of the company’s top security executives following its massive data breach last year.Jamil Farshchi is...
View ArticleFor national security, the 'Internet of Things' is the...
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Archimedes died in 212 BC. There’s no way he could have predicted the Internet of Things. But he did.Three...
View ArticleHow to prevent the next great Equifax heist
By letting the Equifax breach go unexamined, the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau (CFPB) is permitting a world more vulnerable to fraud, insecurity, consumer inaction, and third-party risk — a...
View ArticleThe great data robbery: Modern capers can leave US broke, vulnerable
Why rob a bank?“Because that’s where the money is.” Willie Sutton claimed he never uttered those words. Regardless, it makes for good lore and a cautionary tale. The reality is bank robbery is down...
View ArticleJudge says Massachusetts can sue Equifax over breach
A Massachusetts judge has cleared the way for the state to sue Equifax over the massive data breach that the credit reporting firm disclosed last year.Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Kenneth...
View Article'Monopoly man' returns for Mulvaney's CFPB hearing
An activist who attends Trump administration congressional hearings dressed as the mascot from Monopoly reappeared on Thursday on Capitol Hill during a hearing with acting Consumer Financial Protection...
View ArticleIRS Tax Day glitch exposes antiquated tech infrastructure
Yesterday’s technology, tomorrow. That fairly sums up the problem with the federal government information technology infrastructure. That, and the cumbersome and antiquated acquisition process to...
View ArticleEquifax sends Congress more details on massive data breach
Credit reporting agency Equifax recently sent more details to Congress about its massive data breach last year, which impacted over 145 million Americans. The statement, which breaks down the numbers...
View ArticleA year after Equifax, be prepared for the next data breach
One year after revealing the worst data breach in history, Equifax still hasn’t paid a price or provided the information and tools consumers need to adequately protect themselves.On Sep. 7, 2017,...
View ArticleBritish arm of Equifax fined over 2017 data breach
A British regulator hit the U.K. branch of Equifax with a fine of £500,000, or about $662,000, for failing to protect the personal information of people in the country during a cyberattack last...
View ArticleThe creepy truth about where your information goes in a big data breach
The noted Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung, who’s credited with creating the field of analytical psychology, observed in 1933, when talking about human nature, that duality is a fact of life....
View ArticleWorse than nothing's been done since the massive Equifax hack
More than a year has passed since the American people belatedly learned about the shocking Equifax breach that exposed more than 145 million Americans’ personal information to the dark web where...
View ArticleFTC surprised by number of claims for Equifax settlement cash
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was caught off guard by the number of people seeking cash payouts from the settlement it reached with Equifax last week over the 2017 data breach that exposed...
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