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Sephora hit by data breach; Asia & ANZ user passwords cancelled

Beauty retailer Sephora urges customers across Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to change their passwords after a data breach exposed personal information.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Tue, 30th Jul 2019

Breach Prevention

Marriott, British Airways fines highlight critical need for security investment

Heavy fines of GBP £183.39 million for British Airways and GBP £99.2 million for Marriott underscore the critical need for immediate cybersecurity investment.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 12th Jul 2019

Breach Prevention

Breach checking website Have I Been Pwned is up for grabs

The man behind the popular breach checking website Have I Been Pwned is stepping down from his esteemed post as sole manager of the site.

By Sara Barker • 4 min read • Thu, 13th Jun 2019

Data Loss Prevention

Experts comment on US Customs data breach

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency has been responsible for the leaking of tens of thousands of images of travellers and license plates.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Wed, 12th Jun 2019

Breach Prevention

Why one in three CEOs would fire the person responsible for a breach - Nominet

One in three CEOs would fire staff responsible for a data breach, finds Nominet's report on the cyber challenges and leadership gaps facing large enterprises.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Tue, 4th Jun 2019

Breach Prevention

Users' names and email addresses leaked in Flipboard data breach

Flipboard suffered a major data breach, compromising users' names, email addresses, and passwords. The breach went unnoticed for over nine months.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Thu, 30th May 2019

Breach Prevention

Treasury “deliberately and systematically” hacked

This follows the opposition party's unexpected release of details of the Government's Budget, which were due to be made public on Thursday.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Wed, 29th May 2019

Customer Relationship Management

Salesforce continues to stumble after critical outage

Salesforce faces backlash after a major outage left EU and North America customers' data vulnerable, with permissions issues causing significant disruptions.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Mon, 20th May 2019

Crypto

Another cryptocurrency exchange breached, but at least investors are safe

Binance has been hacked, losing 7000 Bitcoin (USD $41 million) from its BTC hot wallet. Customer funds remain safe, covered by its Secure Asset Fund.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 9th May 2019

Cloud Access Security Broker

61% of IT professionals have experienced serious data breach - McAfee

A new McAfee report reveals 61% of IT professionals have faced serious data breaches in their current jobs, highlighting persistent cybersecurity challenges.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Thu, 2nd May 2019

Breach Prevention

Yahoo proposes US$117.5m breach settlement - but will it be enough?

Yahoo proposes USD $117.5m settlement for breaches impacting billions. Judge Lucy Koh's approval will determine if it's truly sufficient to address the fallout.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Wed, 10th Apr 2019

Breach Prevention

Interview: Uber's CISO reveals lessons learned from breaches

Uber's chief information security officer John 'Four' Flynn has a career history that many technologists could only dream of.

By Sara Barker • 7 min read • Mon, 8th Apr 2019

Breach Prevention

Experts and execs comment on Facebook data leak

Facebook's reputation takes another hit as 540 million user records are exposed due to misconfigured AWS servers.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Fri, 5th Apr 2019

Storage

61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously

Egress conducted a survey to examine the root causes of employee-driven data breaches, their frequency, and impact.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Tue, 26th Mar 2019

Data Analytics

Unencrypted Gearbest database leaves over 1.5mil shoppers' records exposed

A breach at Gearbest has left over 1.5 million shoppers' records exposed, including payment details and national IDs, due to an unencrypted database.

By Kai Ping Lew • 5 min read • Tue, 19th Mar 2019

Breach Prevention

Kathmandu breached, customer information accessed

Kathmandu is notifying potentially affected customers directly and has advised them to change their passwords for its online loyalty programme.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Thu, 14th Mar 2019

Virtualisation

Was Citrix unaware of its own data breach until the FBI got involved?

Citrix learnt of a data breach only after the FBI alerted them, suspecting international cybercriminals accessed their network using 'password spraying'.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 14th Mar 2019