Security company ADT announces security breach of customer data

Electronic surveillance equipment provider ADT filed a form 8-K with the Security and Exchange Commision SEC to report “a cybersecurity incident during which unauthorized actors illegally accessed certain databases containing ADT customer order information.” An 8-K is a report of unscheduled...

Identity theft is number one threat for consumers, says report

The German Federal Office for Information Security BSI has published a report on The State of IT Security in Germany in 2023, and the number one threat for consumers is… identity theft. The thing is, you can protect your devices and your online privacy as much as possible, but what happens when...

Think you’ve had a breach? Top 5 things to do

Realising that you may have had a data breach can be the start of a stressful and confusing time. Ideally, you would reach for your carefully crafted and practised incident management plan to guide you through the process. In reality though these plans fall into two camps: They don’t exist yet Th...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #7

Black Hat USA 2019 is just weeks away, and with scores of training courses and research briefings to choose from, planning your schedule can be a challenge. To help you, we’re posting a weekly recommendation on our blog, and explaining why we think Qualys customers could find it useful and...

How to Make a Data Breach Disappear

For companies that are in the business of collecting, storing or monetizing user data or processing large numbers of transactions, it’s a matter of when, not if, they will suffer a major compromise or data loss. Most recently the giant wheel of pain stopped on Global Payments, but a weird thing...

How to Respond to a Data Breach

You’ve been robbed. Maybe you don’t know to what extent. Perhaps the crook simply took the opportunity to snag a notebook sitting in the back of a car and doesn’t care about the data. Perchance it was a planned burglary and now a competitor or political activist group has gigabytes of potentially...