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Credit monitoring services can mitigate effect of data breach, says expert
Out-Law.com Providing credit monitoring services can help reduce the reputational damage that businesses can suffer when customer data is compromised in a cyber attack, and it has also been shown to help reduce the level of fine that businesses may face for that … |
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Data breaches could cost Yahoo up to $ 350M USD, Reuters says
ITBusiness.ca Citing sources familiar with the matter, Reuters and Bloomberg are reporting that Verizon Communications Inc. now plans to buy the former Internet giant for up to $ 350 million (all figures USD) less than the $ 4.8 billion it originally promised, thanks … |
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The Latest: 20000+ tribal members warned of data breach
KTVH A Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman says more than 20,000 members of two Montana American Indian tribes were notified of a potential data breach involving their personal information. BIA Spokeswoman Nedra Darling says an external hard drive with … |
As tens of thousands of the world’s top security pros gather at RSA Conference 2017 they are being called upon to watch out for a new threat: their own data.
By corrupting data that is used for making decisions, attackers can cause all kinds of problems, says Chris Young, general manager of Intel Security. “Now data is manipulated and used against us to affect the decisions we make,” he says.
He calls this corruption “data landmines,” which when factored into decision making, can result in bad choices, missed opportunities and economic losses.
He says stolen and manipulated data combined to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, for example, and the consequences of similar manipulations could be high for businesses whose big-data analysis is undermined by altered small data that makes it up. With inaccurate input to draw on, the outcomes will be faulty, he says.
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