After suffering two large, and embarrassing, data breaches in recent weeks, the Australian government increased the fine for serious data breaches from $2.2 million to a minimum of $50 million. (That’s $50 million AUD, or $32 million USD.)
This is a welcome change. The problem is one of incentives, and Australia has now increased the incentive for companies to secure the personal data or their users and customers.
I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create
Behavioral analytics, long associated with threat detection (i.e. UEBA or UBA), is experiencing a renaissance. Once primarily used to identify
Scammers have leapt at the opportunity to exploit vulnerable UK residents by sending bogus messages telling them they need to
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called Ymir that was deployed in an attack two days after systems