data breach

It started on a Monday with a single exclusive story published on the Reuters website, where user information for over 200 million stolen email accounts encompassing mail.ru, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft landed in the hands of hackers. (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-passwords-idUSKCN0XV1I6) Fast forward to Friday, and the Internet was dominated with news stories on...

Every day there is another story in the news about a data breach. It’s not really news anymore – what is newsworthy is the aftermath of the breach. Everyone in security knows that intrusions are inevitable. You’ve been breached or you will be breached in some form or another...

Looking from the outside in on what has happened at Sony has not been pretty. Massive failures at many levels have led to what is turning out to be an extremely expensive, reputation crushing, and embarrassing situation. Could it have been avoided? The answer is not easy, but let’s...