Tag: Equifax

Ransomware, Data Breaches, I.D.Theft & The Future

Prevention

If you thought the Equifax data breach was as bad as digital security got… think again. The Atlanta-based credit report company only leaked the personal information of 143 million accounts – that’s almost one out of every two Americans but Yahoo managed to lose the email addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers and passwords of THREE BILLION subscriber’s details. THAT’S ALMOST HALF THE WORLD! To make matters worse, while Georgia State laws meant Equifax bosses could keep news of the hack quiet for over a month (while they sold company shares) the Yahoo cyber attack occurred in 2013 but wasn’t disclosed until December 2016. Yahoo’s breach isn’t

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RansomwareNewz Desk – Equifax, Russian Kangaroos, NATO

Current News

Welcome, welcome, welcome to RansomwareNewz straight outta Boston. We begin with news about Equifax, where things have gone from bad to worse to Dante’s ninth level of hell! No, RWNZ hasn’t recruited John Oliver but (trendsetters that we are!) hacking stories have become the subject of entire episodes of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. In case you missed Sunday night’s report on the Equifax data breach which placed 140 million Americans in danger of identity theft, here it is in its full glory: WHEN WILL THEY LEARN? And this news just in – Equifax has been hit again, this time by malvertising. Security

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RansomwareNewz Desk – Equifax And FedEx Are Fed Up

Aftermath

FEDEX ARE THOROUGHLY FED UP FedEx may have acquired Dutch shipping company TNT Express last year, but we here at the RansomwareNewz Desk have always wanted FedEx to merge with rivals UPS so they can re-name their company in line with how their parcel-less customers often feel – FedUp.  Their employees look more happy with the news, though… Joking aside, FedEx now have a much better reason to be fed up – the Memphis-based delivery company has revealed that this summer’s NotPetya ransomware attack (which used a Windows exploit stripped from an NSA leak) that affected newly acquired TNT Express

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