Category: The Week in Breach

June 06, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/28/18 – 5/03/18

Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: – Finance sector attacks ramping up – BackSwap JavaScript injections effectively circumventing detection – Honda has leaky buckets too

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May 30, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/21/18 – 5/27/18

Breach news to share with your customers! Highlights from The Week in Breach: – You’d better reboot your router… NOW! – Nation states injecting malicious apps into play stores to steal your stuff. – Malware infects healthcare system impacting 500,000 Marylanders. – Time from detection to acknowledgment and response getting slower and slower and slower.

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May 23, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/14/18 – 5/20/18

The Week in Breach: 5/14/18 – 5/20/18 Breach news to share with your customers! Highlight’s from The Week in Breach: Ransomware still plaguing state and local agencies Accidental data disclosures on the rise AWS implementation flaws create security flaws compromised

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May 17, 2018

The Week in Breach: 5/7/18 – 5/14/18

Breach Updates and News Small Business can use! Two-factor Authentication Hackable? Our friends at KnowBe4 show 2 Factor may not be enough in some cases. Student of The Month in California! Phish Teacher, Change Grades, Get Felony! You can’t make this stuff up!

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May 09, 2018

The Week in Breach: 4/30/18 – 5/6/18

Breach Updates and News Small Business can use! This past week proved to be the quietest week of the year when it comes to the volume of confirmed breaches. I certainly don’t expect this to be the case next week. Our team is seeing an uptick in chatter across dark web forums indicating confirmed exploits impacting several organizations in the financial, healthcare and legal sectors. I do have to give credit to Twitter’s CTO for going public with the fact that they accidentally stored passwords in clear text. See links to Twitter articles below.

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May 02, 2018

The Week in Breach 4/23 – 4/30

Breach Updates and News Small Business Can Use! Not Worried About that Public Data Breach? You Should be! Credential Stuffing Bots are on the rise and working overtime to exploit you!

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April 24, 2018

The Week in Breach: 4/16/18 – 4/22/18

It’s the little things that give you away. This past week brought us a diverse set of incidents. Unfortunately, several of the high-profile compromises could have been easily prevented. From database misconfigurations to Phishing exploits, this week was the busiest week in disclosure since the week of March 19th.

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April 18, 2018

The Week in Breach: 4/9 – 4/15

Greetings from Fabulous Las Vegas! If you are at the Channel Partners Expo, stop by booth #3073 to say hi to the team! We hope you were able to check out our session yesterday: Massive Data Breaches: A Love Story? If you are interested in getting the presentation, let us know and we’ll send it to you!

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April 10, 2018

The Week in Breach: 4/2/18 – 4/8/18

There is a storm brewing over at Facebook. I will reserve summary and comments for next week – after Zuckerberg testifies. I will say however, the simple fact is that you did not/do not need to be a data analytics firm to harvest data and profile millions (potentially billions) of Facebook users. More to come…

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April 05, 2018

The Week In Breach March 26th – April 1st

It was a very active week in breach. Aside from the volume of events, it’s important to note the diversity of industries impacted is impressive. Both traditional credential-based compromises and advanced persistent threats were equally damaging. Additional takeaways from this week include:

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