A system-wide computer outage caused cancellations and delays for many passengers flying with Delta Airlines. According to a statement from Delta, the problem began at Delta’s hub headquarters in Atlanta: “A power outage in Atlanta, which began at approximately 2:30 a.m. ET on Monday, August 8th, 2016, has impacted Delta computer systems and operations worldwide, resulting […]
The US Security and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance and Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) announced a new series of Cybersecurity guidelines that focused on both examination preparedness and security best-practices. In response, The LCO Group has launched a new Managed Security Offering targeting small to mid-sized businesses that have both fiduciary and legal obligations to […]
Symantec Corporation, the leading provider of cybersecurity, has been suffering security issues for far too long. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent out yet another warning to their consumer’s regarding flaws in the company’s antivirus products. According to the US-CERT, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, the severe vulnerabilities […]
Multi-Year data breach is now under investigation at UnityPoint Health-Allen Hospital in Connecticut. From February to April 2016, the cyber hackers gained unauthorized access to the Stamford Podiatry Group systems, including its EHR database. The intruders were able to compromise protected health information such as; patient names, medical history and treatment information, name, social security […]
Acer, a Taiwanese computer company, announced they had suffered a data breach where hackers had stolen customers’ sensitive information from the Acer online store. The company then decided to reveal this information in a letter to the California Attorney General about the data breach. The letter stated that 34,000 were affected by the breach and […]
Similarly, to the LinkedIn hack, millions of login credentials from other social media websites were also stolen and advertised for sale online. In particular, MySpace, a company that once dominated the social network, suffered one of the largest data breaches reported in history. While many people do not login into MySpace page anymore, every old […]
During the 2008 presidential election, both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain computer networks were attacked by Chinese hackers. Four years later, Mitt Romney and Obama were again faced with similar threats during their campaign. Since then, each year political campaigns are threatened by cybersecurity issues – from hacktivism to fraud – politicians have yet to resolve […]
The United States Congress has become the primary target for ransomware attacks. The House IT department released this information in an email that stated “the House Information Security Office has seen an increase of attacks on the House Network using a third-party, web-based mail applications such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc. The department also issued […]
Holding 39% of the world marker client-server ERP systems, SAP continues to provide businesses with enterprise software for managing operations and customer relations. Despite the company’s success, the software corporation was breached six years ago by cyberhackers. The initial attacks were intended to exploit a vulnerability and gain access the old SAP systems. As a […]
Just before LinkedIN reached it’s ten year anniversary, the business- oriented social network was hacked by Russian cybercriminals. On June 5th 2012, nearly 6.5 million LinkedIN account passwords were stolen from a weak security system and outdated form of cryptography. Experts discovered that LinkedIn had been using commonly cryptographic algorithm called SHA-1 to protect user […]