One of the first hacks to ever get widespread public attention occurred on the night of April 27, 1986. Millions of HBO subscribers in the United States were watching the movie The Falcon and the Snowman when their screens suddenly displayed this message: “Captain Midnight” hacked the HBO signal and complained to the world about […]
How do you measure the cost of a company data breach? You could try asking those that have been attacked. The IBM Security Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021 did just that, and the numbers reveal some hard truths. For example, ransomware attacks cost an average of $4.62 million. These costs included escalation, notification, […]
“It has gotten to the point, unfortunately, where they are so frequent and common these days, that it’s like, here we go again,” Christopher Sitter says when I asked him about the prospect of a third-party data breach. Sitter is the senior director of information security at Juniper Networks. He manages all things incident response-related […]
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