The world’s biggest carmaker on Friday (Oct. 7) apologized for a breach apparently caused by a third-party vendor that is thought to have leaked close to 300,000 email addresses and associated customer management numbers. Toyota Motor announced on its website that email addresses and associated...
PrismHR, a payroll company, suffered what could have been a ransomware attack over the weekend that left a massive outage, according to a Tuesday (March 2) report from BleepingComputer. PrismHR works as an online payroll, benefits and human resources platform used by professional employer organizations...
A cyber attack was leveled at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday amid that department’s continued vital role in the coronavirus mitigation. The attack didn’t have any dire effects like a data breach, officials said, and HHS networks were functioning like...
Police and financial institutions are battling to contain a wire transfer email hacking scam that is costing individuals and businesses billions, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday (Feb. 23). In one major example in 2018, Frank Krasovec, the chairman of Dash Brands, owner of...
August 25, 2017
The cyber insurance market is expected to grow, by a lot. Researchers at PricewaterhouseCoopers predicted in 2015 that the market would hit $7.5 billion in annual premiums by the end of the decade (and at least $5 billion by next year). With recent high-profile attacks like WannaCry, cyber insurance demand is spiking as corporations look […]
June 20, 2017
Hitting the ground running with the next big thing in services or products or payments can be a thrill, but for startups with blinders on, ignoring cyber risk can be...
April 17, 2023
NCR has been hit by a ransomware attack that is affecting the capabilities of some restaurants. The incident was discovered Thursday (April 13), caused a single data center outage and has impacted the company’s Aloha point-of-sale (POS) system for restaurants and its Counterpoint retail management system, the provider of technology platforms said in a Monday (April […]
October 07, 2022
The world’s biggest carmaker on Friday (Oct. 7) apologized for a breach apparently caused by a third-party vendor that is thought to have leaked close to 300,000 email addresses and...
March 17, 2020
A cyber attack was leveled at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday amid that department’s continued vital role in the coronavirus mitigation. The attack didn’t have...
February 23, 2020
Police and financial institutions are battling to contain a wire transfer email hacking scam that is costing individuals and businesses billions, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday (Feb. 23). ...
