The NHS has been forced to apologize after another insider data handling error led to the exposure of more than 3000 patients’ details....
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The cyberattack on U.S. taxpayer data reported by the Internal Revenue Service earlier this year now appears to be much worse than originally thought, the agency announced Monday, with as many as 300,000 citizens now believed to be potential victims....
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The way the government buys technology can constrain efforts to protect federal systems from cybersecurity threats, says Michael Daniel, the top White House advisor on cybersecurity....
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Software will always have bugs. The challenge is finding and closing them before attackers figure out what kind of damage they can cause by exploiting them. In the case of the Samba networking utility, the remote code execution bug can be potentially exploited by a network worm, which means the addressing this vulnerability just shot to the top—or nearly to the top—of the sysadmin’s to-do list....
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Most big data breaches are enabled by spear phishing and a lack of capabilities to detect and respond to intrusions, not sophisticated malware or attack techniques, says Telefonica's head of security US health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield claims it was targeted by a “sophisticated” cyber attack, but it was probably another case of spear phishing, according to Telefonica’s head of security....
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As the younger, “millennial” generation makes its way into the workforce, security experts are concerned that this group’s attitudes toward privacy, combined with expectations regarding what devices and apps they can access at work, will bring new cybersecurity challenges to the workplace....
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