Viscuso, who founded cyber incident response company Carbon Black in 2011, which was acquired by Bit9,
says cyber breaches are unlike damage from a hurricane.
Not exact matches
«Although this would require
cyber criminals to target individual cards and wouldn't result in large scale
breaches or theft like we have seen in the U.S., the payment technology used won't protect against retailers who aren't storing payment card data securely, and they will still need to be vigilant in protecting stored data,» Candid Wüest, threat researcher at Symantec Security Response,
said.
«Yahoo's failure to have controls and procedures in place to assess its
cyber disclosure obligations ended up leaving its investors totally in the dark about a massive data
breach,» Jina Choi, director of the SEC's San Francisco regional office,
said in a statement.
He
says the world has never seen a cataclysmic
cyber breach, so there is no way to assess risk accurately.
The FBI's Pittsburgh field office, which runs many
cyber security investigations, is trying to identify the people behind
breaches of the Democratic National Committee's computer systems, the officials
said.
«Statistics show that between 70 - and - 80 % of
cyber breaches have an internal component to them,»
says Robert Ackerman, the lead investor at Allegis Capital and newly added board member at RedOwl, as he details his reasoning behind the investment.
Yahoo
said on Thursday that information for at least 500 million user accounts was stolen from its network in 2014 by what it believed was a state - sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to the biggest
cyber breach ever.
Joyce
said at a conference last month that U.S. officials were trying to persuade European regulators to allow a carve out in the law for security researchers to continue collecting data pertinent to data
breaches or other
cyber crime investigations.
Police arrested a 15 - year - old boy over a
cyber attack on telephone and internet provider TalkTalk, feared to have
breached the data of millions of Britons, Scotland Yard
said on Monday.
Canada Bell apologizes to customers after data
breach hits 1.9 million e-mail addresses, Globe and Mail Indigenous group
says inquiry into missing and murdered women a failure, Globe and Mail Sentencing hearing starts for teen in deadly school shooting in Saskatchewan, Canadian Press United States Trump
says he has «absolute right» to share facts with Russians, Reuters More Americans want «independent» investigation of Trump: Reuters / Ipsos poll, Reuters International Researchers
say global
cyber attack similar to North Korean hacks, Reuters Ukraine imposes sanctions on Russian web firms, citing
cyber threat, Reuters
When asked if their firm had
cyber-insurance covering data
breaches, only 22 percent
said yes, while 47 percent
said their insurance didn't cover
cyber issues.
David Pollitt, partner and head of insurance at DAC Beachcroft,
says: «We think evolving data protection law could really boost
cyber insurance policies, with data
breaches set to become more costly.»
President of Tata AIG general Insurance, M Ravichandran
said cyber insurance policy will provide cover against
cyber extortion and
breach of data privacy.
Delta Air Lines
said Thursday that it has launched a website for customers who may have been affected by a
cyber breach that could have left their credit card information vulnerable to hackers.
«We are bombarded with news reports of
cyber attacks and
breaches that compromise sensitive information or impair the operations of critical services or infrastructure, but greater awareness of the problem has not led to greater security,»
said Phil Reitinger, President and CEO of the Global
Cyber Alliance.
Department store chain Sears Holding Corp and Delta Air Lines Inc
said on Wednesday some of their customer payment information may have been exposed in a
cyber security
breach.
We've all lost our identity at least three times, with more than 930 million records
breached, lost or stolen to hackers and
cyber criminals,
says consumer advocacy non-profit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.