This week, the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held a hearing on “Cybersecurity Threats: The Way Forward” to share why and how the United States should move forward in dealing with cybersecurity threats.According to Reuters’ Patricia Zengerle, Director of the U.S. National Security Agency Admiral Mike Rogers stated that “China and ‘probably one or two’ [...]
This week, the United States Postal Service (USPS) became 2014’s latest data breach victim after a cyber attack targeting the organization’s computer systems resulted in the loss of employee information.Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reported, “More than 800,000 people, including employees, top directors and regulators, could be affected by a computer systems breach [...]
Cyber criminals are getting creative. We constantly hear about hackers stealing credit card numbers and even Twitter handles. Now, they have also added your loyalty rewards points to their list.Brian Krebs wrote an excellent article highlighting a few of interesting cases where victims had rewards points stolen.One victim reported that he had about 250,000 Hilton [...]
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks announced this week that they have unearthed a new malware strain that targets Apple products. The malware has been dubbed “WireLurker.”Brett Molina, of USA Today, reported, “security researchers have discovered new malware targeting Apple's iOS mobile operating system and OS X for Macs that can be transmitted through USB connections.” [...]
October was quite a busy month at Experian! We participated in a healthy mix of industry-related events – like National Cyber Security Awareness Month and our cyberSAFE webinar – and let loose at the end of the month with our annual Halloween costume contest. Take a look at what we were up to and what’s [...]
The story filling headlines this week surrounds a breach of a number of White House computers.Ellen Nakashima of The Washington Post reported, “Hackers thought to be working for the Russian government breached the unclassified White House computer networks in recent weeks, sources said, resulting in temporary disruptions to some services while cybersecurity teams worked to [...]
As we enter the final months of 2014, we are going to post a number of blogs that explore the cyber security trends we expect to be front-and-center in the New Year. If 2014 is the year of the POS breach, it looks like 2015 may be the year of figuring out security around NFC [...]
This guest blog post comes from Dr. Suzanne Barber, Director of the Center for Identity at The University of Texas at Austin. You can learn more about medical identity theft in our recent webinar on the topic, or check out our corresponding whitepaper and infographic.When you’re sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, [...]
Ebola has caught the attention of consumers, the media and now cyber criminals. According to ZDNet’s Violet Blue, the United States of Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) sent an alert for consumers to be on watch for email scams involving Ebola news as phishing bait. The alert stated, “Phishing emails may contain links that direct [...]
While stories about large-scale financial and retail breaches are making headlines on a regular basis, it is medical identity theft that should be taking center stage. Why? In 2013, the healthcare industry experienced more data breaches than ever before, accounting for 43% of all breaches that year.In the most recent edition of our cyberSAFE webinar [...]
