ThreatList: 3 Out of 4 Employees Pose a Security Risk to Businesses
Finance-sector employees fared the worst in an awareness survey, with 85 percent showing some lack of cybersecurity and data privacy knowledge.
Insider threats
Yahoo Tells SEC It Knew About Data Breach in 2014
Yahoo’s latest SEC filing includes confirmation that it knew attackers were on its network in 2014 and stole information on 500 million accounts.
Enterprises Still Lax on Privileged User Access Controls
The results of a survey commissioned by Raytheon demonstrate that enterprises still don’t have a firm grasp on privileged users and their activities on corporate networks.
Working with forensics experts from the FBI, Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Practice developed a piece of linguistic, fraud-monitoring software that identified language commonly used among employees engaged in corporate malfeasance. The accounting giant plans to offer their newly developed fraud-detection capacity as a service to their clients.
A South Carolina man was arrested yesterday on charges stemming from a data breach that may have leaked personal information on more than 200,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in the state, including their names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and Medicare ID numbers according to a report in the newspaper The State.
