The breach itself occurred between mid-May and July 2017 when cyber criminals
gained access to sensitive data by exploiting a weak point in website software.
Hackers
gained access to sensitive data stored by Equifax for almost half of all Americans, including:
At the same time, the researchers will have to ensure that data security can be maintained so that it won't be possible to sabotage or hack into the system and
gain access to sensitive data.
Criminals are increasingly
gaining access to sensitive data through vulnerabilities in infrastructure, such as buildings.
Not exact matches
It concluded that Bloomberg now had «appropriate» privacy controls in place — and that reporters never
gained access to sensitive trading, portfolio, or messaging
data.
The regulation is in response
to the recent Equifax
data breach, in which hackers
gained access to sensitive personal information of an estimated 143 million American consumers, according
to the Federal Trade Commission.
It could allow malware
to gain access to a person's camera or obtain
sensitive data without their permission, for example.
Moreover, as this research shows,
data breaches often occur from inside an organisation, meaning it is extremely important that staff are adequately vetted before
gaining access to sensitive information.
And if they can
access your
data, they could make off not only with your documents and
sensitive client information, but use you
to gain access to your vendors, client trust account and other abundant sources of digital treasure.
The latest in our series of comments on security, Chris Oakley, managing principal security consultant at Nettitude gives us an insight into the recent spear - phishing and black box security tests the company has run on clients —
gaining access to an alarming amount of
sensitive company
data, including intellectual property, employee information and company contracts — as well as outlining what should have been done differently.
They claim billions of devices are vulnerable, allowing malicious actors
to gain access to passwords and other
sensitive data without leaving a trace.
Microsoft Cloud App Security is a CASB (Cloud
Access Security Broker) that can help you bring the protection you have on - premises
to your cloud apps,
gaining comprehensive visibility, auditing capabilities, and granular controls
to help ensure your
sensitive data stays safe.
Hackers
gained access to the electric car company's Amazon cloud account, where they were able
to view «
sensitive data» such as vehicle telemetry.
The flaws could be potentially exploited
to steal
sensitive data, install malicious code on AMD - based systems, and
gain full
access to the compromised systems.The flaws exposeservers, workstations, and laptops running vulnerable AMD Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, Ryzen Mobile or EPYC processors
to attacks.