SEC Looking Into Whether Firms Failed to Disclose Effects of SolarWinds Cyber Breach June 22, 2021 By Katanga Johnson The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a probe into last year’s SolarWinds cyber breach, focusing on whether...
White House to Require Software Firms to Disclose Breaches to Government Customers March 26, 2021 By Nandita Bose, Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies...
Data Breaches That Take Minutes to Occur, Often Require Months to Discover July 3, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield While it typically only takes a short amount of time for a successful breach to compromise data, the amount of...
SEC May Use Yahoo Case to Set Data Breach Disclosure Rules October 4, 2016 By Dustin Volz Yahoo’s disclosure that hackers stole user data from at least 500 million accounts in 2014 has highlighted shortcomings in U.S....
Government Action, Insurance, Software Product Liability Urged for Cyber Security August 11, 2014 By Joseph Menn Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government...