London UK: Cryptzone has announced the details of its revamped EMEA channel partner program as the demand for cybersecurity solutions in the region grows. Cecile Boyer will drive the program as Cryptzone’s recently appointed Channel and Business Development Director for EMEA.
This week, CareFirst became the third major health insurance company in the USA to disclose a data breach which potentially compromised customer information. It's been reported that the attack could affect as many as 1.1 million of its customers but, according to CareFirst, the hackers did not gain access to sensitive financial or medical information such as social security numbers, credit card information or medical claims. They did, however, have access to names, email addresses and dates of birth. The company said the breach happened last June and described it as 'sophisticated'.
Gavin Reid, VP of threat intelligence at Lancope and Mark Bower, VP at HP Security Voltage comment:
LONDON, UK: Proofpoint, Inc. has released the first social media study that exposes the compliance violations and incidents affecting Fortune 100 social media accounts.
"Domain hijacking and web address network re-directing is a huge problem, getting worse and nearly impossible to prevent from a target company perspective. Essentially, attackers are compromising Internet Service Provider domain name servers or web servers of partners and business associates to re-direct your customers and business-to-business partners to a malicious web site masquerading as your own, in an attempt to get the unknowing customer to provide private security or financial information on the fake site. Companies have no control over other enterprise resources.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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