cyber security

Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 businesses

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) – Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology management software from a Miami-based supplier called Kaseya. The attackers changed a Kaseya tool called VSA, used by companies that manage technology at smaller businesses. They then encrypted the files of those […]

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A huge trove of credit card records and Social Security numbers just got hacked

Not a week goes by anymore, it seems like, when we don’t have multiple hacks to report on, as well as a fresh data breach or systems intrusion on the part of attackers constantly probing for weaknesses anywhere that consumer records are stored. Many of these episodes garner headlines simply because of the scale of the data

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