Snapchat has said that it is “impossibly sorry” after a data leak exposed payroll information for some of its current and former employees, reports the Guardian. The company was the victim of a common phishing scam, centered around an email that purported to have been sent by Snapchat’s chief executive Evan Spiegel. The email asked staff to share … More Snapchat staff payroll data leaked in phishing scam
ESET and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, announced results of The State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare Organizations in 2016 (February 2016). According to the study, healthcare organizations average about one cyber attack per month. Almost half (48 percent) of respondents said their organizations have experienced an incident involving the loss … More New Ponemon Study: Cyber Onslaught Threatens to Overwhelm Healthcare Survey
At ESET Laboratories, we are constantly analyzing and studying how cybercriminals propagate their threats all over the world. Day after day, we receive many different kinds of malicious code created for a variety of purposes. Some are aimed at home users, while others are focused on attacking the business world. Looking back at what we have … More 5 threats every company needs to pay attention to
Today, ESET released a virus database update that was incorrectly blocking access to some websites or their components. As soon as we learned of the problem, the update was retracted and, within approximately two hours’ time a new update fixing the issue was deployed. Following that deployment – and at this time- users should no … More ESET releases and quickly fixes a faulty update
Theft of identities along with personal information still accounts for the majority of data breaches, a new global survey by Gemalto has found. According to the 2015 Breach Level Index (BLI), identity theft accounted for 53% of all data breaches as well as 40% of “all compromised records” last year. Jason Hart, vice president and … More Identity theft accounts for ‘majority of data breaches’
