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Data Breach

Ransomware Microsoft NordLocker cyberattack, departments most at risk of being hacked

These 3 Departments Pose the Highest Risk of Being Hacked

January 18, 2023 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity experts from NordLocker, part of Nord Security, reveal that employees from certain departments are much more lucrative targets for cybercriminals than others. With human error being the reason behind a whopping 82% of data breaches, employees are the weakest link when it comes to organizational cybersecurity. “From receptionists to the C-Suite, every employee should […]

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Why Healthcare Needs Better Data Security

April 12, 2022 Brian Foy Leave a Comment

As the healthcare industry accelerates into an increasingly digitized world, cyber breaches exposing confidential patient data are becoming more commonplace. In fact, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ breach portal, a staggering 44,993,618 healthcare records were exposed or stolen in 2021. The implications of these security breaches are […]

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Why You Shouldn’t Save Your Passwords in a Word Doc

March 9, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Small businesses are continuing to use Word documents or Excel spreadsheets to keep their passwords despite the inherit risk of compromise. A study by NordPass reveals 3 out of 7 companies admitted it keeps passwords in Word, Excel, or other plain text documents that were not password protected. Before adopting a company-wide password manager, none […]

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Sansec Finds Mass Breach Of Stores Running On Magento 1 E-Commerce Platform

February 11, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Adobe is urging organizations who use the Magento 1 e-commerce platform to upgrade to the latest Adobe Commerce platform. Sansec, an e-commerce malware and detection tool has identified a mass breach of over 500 stores running on the Magento 1 ecommerce platform. Although Adobe ended support for Magento 1 in June of 2020, many companies […]

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Sennheiser Responds After Customer Data from 2018 Was Exposed Online

December 21, 2021 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Wedemark, Germany-based audio giant Sennheiser is working “intensively” to investigate how some customer data was exposed on the internet two months ago, the company says in a newly updated statement. In a notice on its website, Sennheiser acknowledges being notified in October that some company data was displayed on the web. The company says it […]

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Robinhood Data Breach: Hacker Tricked Customer Support Employee By Phone

November 9, 2021 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Stock trading platform Robinhood announced that certain customer support systems were hacked in early November. The unauthorized party was able to gain access using social engineering through a customer support employee by phone. The hacker was able to obtain access to a list of email addresses of about five million people, and full names of […]

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Neimen Marcus Group (NMG) data breach

Niemen Marcus Data Breach Affects 4.6M Customers

October 5, 2021 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Luxury retailer Niemen Marcus Group (NMG) learned an unauthorized party obtained personal information associated to certain Neimen Marcus’ online accounts in May of 2020. NMG is notifying 4.6 million of its online customers about the data breach that happened last year. The company is working with cybersecurity expert, Mandiant to investigate the incident. The personal […]

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Threat Detection Trends

What You Need To Know About Vulnerabilities and Data Breaches in 2021

August 5, 2021 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

A pair of new reports from Risk Based Security find that disclosed software and hardware vulnerabilities continue to increase while reported data breaches in most parts of the world decline. For IT administrators struggling to keep pace with the rapid changes in cybersecurity, the reports provide some useful insight into exactly what you’re up against. […]

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Data Breaches Average Cost

Report: Pandemic Led to More Expensive Data Breaches

July 30, 2021 Jess DeWitt Leave a Comment

According to a report by IBM security, data breaches hit record highs in terms of cost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, data breaches were becoming a more frequent problem for organizations, but due to multiple factors, they became more problematic in the past year. IBM Security hired Ponemon Institute to compile […]

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IBM Data Breach Study

IBM Study: Average Cost of Data Breach $3.86M

August 31, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

It’s no secret that data breaches are a nuisance and an unfortunate part of doing business. And, according to a new IBM study, they are expensive. The 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report, sponsored by IBM Security and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found that data breaches cost companies $3.86 million on average, and […]

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