Data Matters

MARCH 11, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new cybersecurity rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies. an incident in which a malicious actor has demanded payment to restore company data that was stolen or altered.

Cybersecurity 88

Cybersecurity Risk Government e-Discovery 88

IT Governance

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Welcome to our December 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. A series of phishing emails were discovered by the security firm Trellix. FTX customers offered refund in deepfake phishing scam.

Phishing 111

Phishing Education Personal data Authentication 111

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

Security 111

Security Government Encryption Risk 111

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most essentially, facial recognition technology promises a solid amount of internal and external security advantages in the day-to-day activity of enterprises, making it a key technology for passwordless authentication. Another concern is that of false negatives in identification, which can deny the right person access.

Authentication 125

Authentication Artificial Intelligence Access Passwords 125

Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). Breached Sites Have Been Embracing HIBP. in August last year.

Data breaches 74

Data breaches Passwords Government IT 74

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every single byte of data that's been loaded into the system in recent years has come from someone who freely offered it in order to improve the security landscape for everyone. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap. I'm transparent about how I verify data.

Passwords 145

Passwords IT Privacy Libraries 145