Marriott has released an update on the breach of the Starwood guest reservation data breach which affected 500 million guests.

93 percent of companies without disaster recovery who suffer a major data disaster are out of business within one year.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Quora’s 100 million users are the latest targets in a major data breach, but at least the company has moved quickly to contain it.

A root cause of the breach is currently unknown, but Marriott indicated that the intruders encrypted the information before exfiltrating the data. 

Dell is asking all of its Dell.com customers to change their passwords after it detected ‘unauthorised activity’ on its network earlier this month.

“Paying the attackers and then keeping quiet about it afterwards was not, in our view, an appropriate response to the cyber attack."

The HP New Zealand IT Security Study surveyed 434 New Zealand small to large businesses across the services, production, retail and hospitality.

Amazon isn't providing enough details about the error - and customers aren't happy.

"New data compliance rules offer an opportunity for businesses to re-evaluate their processes and improve data management and customer loyalty."

Auckland-based online computer parts store Computer Lounge has been affected by a security breach.

Twenty-seven credit card numbers with no CVV were accessed, and the combination of data accessed varies for each affected passenger.

Data security incidents have risen 228 percent in the second quarter of 2018, while fines have doubled.

Much of the information accessed in the Facebook breach is perfect for cyber criminals planning their next phishing attack.

Google’s management was aware of the bug but chose not to share it with the public to avoid scrutiny by regulators.

A number of the available servers investigated by Flashpoint led analysts to conclude that most of the breaches are from either US, Russian, or German hosting services. 

Barracuda Networks, Sophos, RedLock, and Darktrace offer their views on the data leak that affected close to 50 million accounts.

Almost 50 million accounts have been compromised through a daisy-chained vulnerability in the View As feature, which allowed an unknown party to snatch authentication tokens of 50 million users.

There were no pints enjoyed at this Scottish brewery this week as it fell victim to a crippling ransomware attack.

A recent survey by CA Technologies found that 40% of APJ executives have sold customer data, although many cybersecurity pros aren’t actually aware that this happened.  How is this possible?

The malicious Chrome extension asks for elevated permissions & steals credentials from sites such as Amazon, GitHub, Live.com, My Monero, plus others.

Healthcare organisations are seemingly prime targets for cybercriminals because of the wealth of personal data they possess.

ForeScout says that network segmentation splits networks into specific zones, which can then enact barriers against infiltrators.

“There’s currently no law requiring companies like Z Energy, Vector, or LinkedIn to tell New Zealanders if their data has been leaked."