Virginia is reverting from electronic to paper ballots while Rhode Island’s legislature this week passed a law to mandate audits comparing paper and electronic voting records.
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Report: 1.9b Records Lost in First Half of 2017, topping 2016
A survey of public data breaches has found a large increase in the number of records that have been stolen, lost or compromised in the first six months of 2017. The firm Gemalto said that the number of records caught up in breaches jumped 164% from the second half of 2016 and the first half 2017 to almost 2 billion lost records. That is more than the total number of records lost in all of 2016. Gemalto said its latest data from the company’s Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, indicates 918 data breaches led to 1.9 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2017. Most of the leaked records came from just 22 large data breaches, each involving more than one million compromised records, the company said. How many records? Nobody knows. Even more worrying: of the 918 data breaches, the […]
Episode 63: Equifax Deep Dive and CSO Qualifications
Security Ledger editor Paul Roberts takes a deep dive into the controversy surrounding data broker Equifax, speaking with experts from the firm Signal Sciences about why web application hacks are so common, and talking with Black Duck about the difficulty companies have keeping tabs on their open source software use. In our final segment, Paul speaks with Deidre Diamond of the placement firm CyberSN and Chris Roberts (@sidragon1) about the controversy surrounding Equifax’s CSO’s background in music composition – and about what qualities and qualifications make for a good security officer.
Opinion: when they say your major is a problem, what they mean is your gender is a problem
In-brief: Talking about Susan Mauldin’s music degree is a socially acceptable way for men to vent about a woman who they don’t feel belongs in their workplace – especially not in a senior role.
Beset by Lawsuits, Scams, Investigations, Equifax names Source of Breach
In-brief: Beset by a plunging share price, class action lawsuits in dozens of states, pending Congressional hearings and a FTC investigation, Equifax on Wednesday finally settled speculation and named a six month old hole in a common software platform, Apache Struts, as the cause of a massive hack.
