The Register |
Hackers tear shreds off Verizon's data breach report top 10 bug list
The Register Information security boffins have pilloried Verizon's latest data breach report, suggesting its list of top security vulnerabilities do not represent reality. The 2016 Data Breach Investigations report [PDF] is Verizon's ninth in the series drawing on … |
Techworld.com |
Data breach trends 2016 – what Verizon's analysis of real breaches reveals
Techworld.com The majority of the data breaches analysed by Verizon in its annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) of real incidents were in larger firms in the US which is where most of of its customers are located. But the increasing prevalence of non-US … Tighten Up Privileged Access Now, or Hate Yourself Later Stolen user credentials account for over half of all data breaches in 2015 Report highlights the need for business to invest in robust cyber coverage |
International Business Times UK |
Verizon's Data Breach Fighter Gets Hit With, Well, a Data Breach
Fortune Verizon Enterprise Solutions is known for producing a widely read data breach investigations report based on information from the hundreds of digital clean ups it coordinates each year. The unit's parent apparently explored selling off the business … This is awkward: Verizon's enterprise security division suffered a data breach Hackers attack Verizon's anti data breach division, access information of 1.5 million customers Somebody Hacked Verizon's Data Breach Experts |
Verizon Enterprise, a bulwark against cyberattacks at many large organizations, has suffered a security breach itself.
A flaw in the company’s systems allowed an attacker to steal contact information on Verizon Enterprise customers, the company acknowledged Thursday. Verizon said it has fixed the flaw and is notifying those users, but it hasn’t disclosed how many were affected.
The intruder couldn’t get to any customer proprietary network information, Verizon said, referring to data such as call records and billing information.
The breach came to light Thursday in a post on the blog Krebs on Security. Krebs reported the hacker stole contact information for about 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers and offered it for sale for US$ 100,000 on a cybercrime forum. Because the data was offered for sale in the MongoDB format, among others it’s likely the attacker forced a MongoDB database at Verizon to dump its contents, the blog said.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here