Consumer Credit Reporting Agency Equifax Suffers Cyberattack Affecting 143 Million Customers Equifax announced hackers gained access to sensitive company data that potentially compromised information for

IRS-Themed Ransomware Using Old-School Tactics Over the past week, researchers have discovered a new ransomware variant that attempts to impersonate both the IRS and the

Data Protection: 28 January is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day in the US) and is observed in almost fifty countries worldwide. Data Protection

Dangerous Blind Spots of IT Security: “For all practical purposes, we can never secure or trust the … endpoint participants in any computing environment.”Amit Yoran,

Using a Password Manager: From streaming entertainment to social media to our online bank accounts and software, we are inundated every day with the need

Fending Off Privacy Invasion: Internet users in the U.S. have seen internet privacy protections diminish significantly in the post-9/11 era. In just March of this

The Cyber News Rundown brings you the latest happenings in cyber news weekly. Who am I? I’m Connor Madsen, a Webroot Threat Research Analyst, and