Charlie Taylor reports: Irish IT services group Ergo is forecasting further growth as it reported revenues of €85.2 million last year as the company said it recently foiled a major ransomware attack. Ergo said it immediately moved to lock down servers late last Wednesday after becoming aware of a serious security incident. It was able to...
Sergiu Gatlan reports: RailWorks Corporation, one of North America’s leading railroad track and transit system providers, disclosed a ransomware attack that led to the exposure of personally identifiable information of current and former employees, their beneficiaries and dependents, as well as that of independent contractors. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Eileen Brown reports on the results of yet another survey that asks consumers what they would do in the event a company was breached. I’ve discussed these kinds of surveys before and the difference between what people say they would do and what people may actually do. To see which applies in this case,...
Rosana Hughes reports: A “catastrophic data loss” caused thousands of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office videos from dashboard cameras to disappear — and potentially could jeopardize criminal and civil cases. All dash camera footage for all 130 patrol deputies between Oct. 25, 2018, and Jan. 23 of this year was lost after a software failure...
Ca: LifeLabs files petition to keep cyberattack report from B.C. privacy commissioner