Oil and Gas Sector Stakeholders Unite to Produce Industry-Specific Cybersecurity Guidelines
DNV GL said Thursday it has established a Joint Industry Project (JIP) together with Shell, Statoil, Lundin, Siemens, Honeywell, ABB, Emerson and Kongsberg Maritime...
Ransomware Now No. 1 Cybercrime – Europol
European police agency Europol has released a new report in which it states ransomware threat is more prevalent than any other form of online...
Proposed Bill to Give Tax Credits for Cyber Insurance
This month, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) introduced a new bill, H.R. 6032, the Data Breach Insurance Act. The bill would provide a 15 percent...
NIST Awards $1 Million in Grants to Tackle Shortage in Cybersecurity Workforce
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded grants totaling nearly $1 million for five projects that are taking a...
Sen. Mark Warner Urges SEC to Investigate Yahoo Breach
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate whether Yahoo properly notified the public and its investors...
FTC Releases Video for Data Breach Prevention and Recovery
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a step-by-step video to users whose personal information may have been exposed in a data breach. The...
Yahoo Hack: Blumenthal Calls for Congressional Action on Data Breach and Security
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has called for Congress to enact data breach and security legislation following Yahoo’s Thursday disclosure of a 2014 data...
More Than 500 Million Yahoo User Data Breached in Massive Cyber Attack
Yahoo confirmed Thursday that more than 500 million user accounts user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what...
New Cyber Bill Proposes Agency Heads be Fired When Breaches Occur
A bill introduced in the House this week by Rep. Ralph Abraham, R-La., proposes that agency heads be demoted, fired or subjected to disciplinary...
Cyber Attacks Against Federal Agencies Increase 1,300 Percent Between 2006 and 2015 – GOA
The United States Government Accountability Office (GOA) has issued a new report in which it outlines the complexity and scope of cyber security threats...