Tag: data breaches
SSN data privacy webcast - data protection starts with people
March 27, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Data privacy has become a hot button issue in 2024, even more than previous years due to several very public and damaging data breaches affecting multiple industries.
Security System News’ most recent webcast looked to shed some light on the future of data security with the advent of technologies and exploits.
Titled “Data Privacy: How to keep up with AI, ChatGPT, biometrics & more,” the webcast featured a panel of industry...
Honesty is the best policy, according to SSN News Poll results
April 21, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – The numbers are in, and the results are rather brisk and breezy in reader responses from this month’s SSN News Poll.
In discussing the prevalence and explosion of data breaches and ransomware events, Security Systems News asked readers to chime in and give their thoughts on what were the best practices when handling the fallout from malware-related events. Let’s break down your responses below:
What is the best way to reduce or eliminate the possibility and...
Darktrace announces availability of monitoring service
February 23, 2023SSN Staff
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Darktrace is combating cyber vulnerabilities through information with the general release of its Darktrace Newsroom capability.
The AI-driven system is part of Darktrace’s PREVENT product line and continuously monitors open-source intelligence sources for new critical vulnerabilities and assesses an organization’s exposure through its knowledge of their external attack surfaces. Darktrace says It uses its “knowledge of self” to quickly assess...
Twitter hack exposes millions of user accounts
January 5, 2023SSN Staff
SAN FRANCISCO – An online forum dedicated to data breaches and hacking has posted a file containing over three gigabytes of Twitter user data.
A variety of news agencies have picked up on the story as cybersecurity experts digging through the file have confirmed that over 200 million Twitter profiles and other user data such as locations, email addresses, and phone numbers were contained in the breach. Username FazyMalone posted the file on BreachForums, writing, “In January...