McAfee, the security software company, is no longer allowing foreign governments to look over the source code of its products, stopping a practice that security experts have cautioned could enable nations to conduct cyberattacks. According to news from Reuters, a company spokeswoman told the news...
A new malware campaign dubbed “BadRabbit” infected computer systems in Russia and other countries on Tuesday (Oct. 24), reported Reuters. According to the news report, the malware impacted the Russian Interfax news agency and was to blame for flight delays in Ukraine. The U.S. government...
In what may be South Africa’s largest data breach, hackers may have gotten away with extensive personal information, including ID numbers, income, marital status, employment details and property ownership information. According to a news report in The Next Web, after the team at iAfrikan –...
Equifax, the embattled credit scoring company, was dealt another blow last week when the Internal Revenue Service suspended a contract that is worth more than $7 million that it had recently awarded the company. According to a news report in Reuters, the move was prompted...
Hyatt, the hotel operator, is alerting its customers that it was hit with a credit card breach, marking the second big breach in a few years. According to a news report, Hyatt said its security staff found signs that there was unauthorized access to payment...
Dubai International Airport has come up with a unique way to check passenger IDs: A virtual tunnel-shaped aquarium equipped with 80 invisible cameras that will identify passengers as they walk through. Mashable reported that the aquarium, which is scheduled to be running by the end...
Financial company MSCI had warned Equifax a year before its massive data breach that there were signs it wasn’t protecting the data of its millions of customers. According to a news report in The Wall Street Journal, MSCI reported in August of last year that...
The U.S. Treasury’s in-house watchdog is reportedly looking into claims that officials at the Treasury department broke the law by looking at the financial records of U.S. citizens. According to a news report in Reuters citing Richard Delmar, counsel to the Treasury’s inspector general, the...
TransUnion, the credit reporting competitor to Equifax, has brought on a team of cybersecurity-focused lobbyists in Washington, D.C, reported Recode. Citing a federal ethics disclosure filing, Recode reported that while TransUnion didn’t specify the political focus of the lobbyists, they will focus on “issues affecting...
