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The Digital Black Market: How Your Data Is Bought, Sold, and Traded After a Breach

What happens to your info after a hack? Knowing this is essential for protecting yourself, so let's follow the trail.

FEMA, Customs and Border Protection Staff Data Stolen in Breach

A hacker gained access to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s computer networks for several months earlier this year and stole information about FEMA and US Customs and Border Protection ...

SOC teams face 51-second breach reality—Manual response times are officially dead

Attackers breach in 51 seconds. Legacy SOCs can't keep up. Here are 10 agentic AI technologies transforming cybersecurity into autonomous machine-speed defense.

Google: Brickstorm malware used to steal U.S. orgs' data for over a year

Suspected Chinese hackers have used the Brickstorm malware in long-term persistence espionage operations against U.S. organizations in the technology and legal sectors.

Green Diamond to Pay $695,000 to Settle Data-Breach Class Action

Green Diamond Resource Co. would pay $695,000 under a proposed deal to settle allegations that it negligently failed to protect the personal information of nearly 28,000 consumers in a 2023 data ...

Google sounds alarm after 2.5B users exposed — says hacking group breached accounts successfully. What to do ASAP to protect yourself

Google revealed that a cybercriminal group known as the ShinyHunters hacked a database of their accounts through the cloud-based software provider Salesforce, exposing the roughly 2.5 billion Gmail ...