They continue to engage in more conventional offensive cyber activities ranging from website defacement, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and theft of personally identifiable information, says CISA. Keep Reading
How can organizations safely and securely comply with the rapid increase in rights requests, especially while resources are more limited than usual due to pandemic-related budget constraints? Keep Reading
Amtrak, the national rail service for the US, has suffered a data breach that may have exposed some customers’ logins and other personally identifiable information (PII), the service has disclosed. Keep Reading
A review by the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Transportation has found security gaps in the Federal Aviation Administration’s drone registration service. Keep Reading
FEMA continues to assure disaster survivors that it has not found any evidence that any of the overshared information was compromised. The agency announced on September 3 that out of an abundance of caution, it will provide credit monitoring services for a period of 18 months to affected survivors who request the service. Keep Reading
In recent years, PII of relocating individuals has been released enabling identity theft, credit card fraud, and unwanted solicitations. Keep Reading
With nearly four times as many breaches from 2017 to 2018, the average breach size was 4.7 times smaller. Keep Reading
The risks to systems underpinning the nation’s critical infrastructure are increasing as security threats evolve and become more sophisticated. Since 2010, GAO has made over 3,000 recommendations to agencies aimed at addressing cybersecurity shortcomings. Although many recommendations have been addressed, about 700 have not yet been implemented. Keep Reading