Articles and Comments By Trevor Morgan
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Canada's Foreign Ministry Hacked, What Went Wrong
January 26 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
As individuals, we are aware of the personal threats posed by cyberattacks directed against us. As m...
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Red Cross Hack Leaks Data Of 515,000 Vulnerable People
January 20 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
From time to time, a cyber-attack demonstrates the utter lack of compassion that hackers possess. Re...
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Comment: Umbrella Firm Parasol Confirms ‘Malicious Activity’ As Root Cause Of Ongoing Systems Outage
January 19 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
News that the malicious activity is behind the ongoing system outages with Parasol Group provides li...
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Luxury Brand Moncler Data Breach - Expert Comments
January 19 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
The trend toward an increasing number of ransomware attacks against high-profile targets in 2022 see...
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FCC Data Breach Reporting Rules For Telecom Carriers - Expert Comments
January 17 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
The FCC’s proposition that data breach reporting rules should be more rigorous on telecom carriers...
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Expert Commentary: Transcredit Data Breach
January 13 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
As 2021 wound down, many of us in the cybersecurity industry made predictions about continued attack...
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FL Broward Health 1.3M Patient Data Breach
January 05 , 2022 by Trevor Morgan
Starting off the new year with word of a high-profile data breach like the one affecting the Broward...
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Volvo Cars Discloses Breach And R&D Data Theft - Cyber Experts Comment
December 13 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The situation that Volvo finds itself in highlights a peripheral danger in leaked or stolen enterpri...
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Data Security Comment: Colorado Energy Company Loses 25 Years Of Data
December 06 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Looking at the attack that wreaked havoc on data operations and the network infrastructure at Delta-...
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Colorado Energy Company DMEA Loses 25 Years Of Data After Cyberattack
December 06 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Looking at the attack that wreaked havoc on data operations and the network infrastructure at Delta-...
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GoDaddy Data Breach Impacts Over A Million Users, Experts Reactions
November 23 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The unfortunate GoDaddy hack that recently exposed customer data from over a million data subjects i...
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Utah Imaging Data Breach - Expert Comments
November 23 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Arguably the most private and sensitive data about ourselves relates to our medical and health data....
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California Pizza Kitchen Suffers Breach Of Employee SSN
November 19 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Enterprises definitely have an obligation to their customers to keep private and sensitive data safe...
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Robinhood Data Breach - Expert Comments
November 10 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The stock trading platform Robinhood very directly addressed the ongoing problem of social enginee...
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Robinhood Data Breach - Expert Comments
November 09 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The stock trading platform Robinhood very directly addressed the ongoing problem of social engineeri...
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Papa New Guinea's Finance Department Suffers Massive Ransomware Attack
October 29 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The recent ransomware incident affecting Papua New Guinea’s finance department underscores a harsh...
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400,000 Users Exposed By API Vulnerability - Expert Comment
October 29 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
APIs provide easy interfaces between applications, enabling the exchange of data and flow of informa...
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Snowden Warning On Weak Encryption - Expert Comments
October 25 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Snowden’s comments shine light on the balance that businesses and governmental organizations are a...
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Experts Insight On Hacker Allegedly Stole Data Of All 45 Million Argentinian Citizens
October 21 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
We look to government to help regulate on our behalf the misuse of our personal data. In many ways,...
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Ex-hospital Employee Wrongfully Exposed 9k Patient Records - Experts Insight
October 19 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The data breach incident that University Hospital disclosed about a former employee who viewed and s...
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Expert Cybersecurity Comment | Twitch Data Breach
October 07 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The most alarming part of the breaking news that a hacker may have severely compromised Twitch, the...
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Syniverse SMS Routing Firm Discloses Five-Year-long Breach
October 06 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
When any part of the backbone of our interconnected ecosystem—service providers—falls prey to th...
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Neiman Marcus Customer Data Breach - Expert Comments
October 04 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Retailers are some of the most viable targets for threat actors precisely because these businesses g...
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What Expert Says On The Latest OMI Vulnerability In Azure
September 15 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The report that Wiz has discovered a vulnerability in Azure, which in the worst-case scenario has t...
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United Nations’ Computers Breached by Hackers
September 13 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The tactically simple but successful cyberattack on the United Nations’ computer networks, now bei...
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United Nations’ Computers Breached by Hackers
September 13 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The tactically simple but successful cyberattack on the United Nations’ computer networks, now bei...
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Expert Reaction on Personal Data of 9,000 French Visa Applicants Exposed
September 09 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
News from French authorities that a cyberattack led to the theft of personal information of over 9,0...
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Expert Reaction On Central Bank Mistakenly Shares Private Data of Union Bosses
September 08 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The Central Bank is now dealing with the embarrassing situation of having erroneously given out the...
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Indonesia Probes Suspected Data Breach on COVID-19 App - Expert Comments
September 01 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The report that Indonesia is looking into a security flaw in a COVID-19 test-and-trace app accentuat...
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Microsoft Warns Cloud Customers Of Exposed Databases
August 30 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Microsoft’s warning to thousands of its cloud computing customers underscores two critical points...
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Renaissance Life & Health Insurance Suffers Data Privacy 'Incident'
August 10 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Insurance companies and their partners and vendors are highly data-driven. They handle and process h...
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Expert Commentary On New NSA And CISA Report Released
August 05 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The report issued by the NSA and CISA points to a growing problem in the cybersecurity space, namely...
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Experts On Campbell Conroy & O'Neil, P.C. Discloses Data Breach
July 19 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
When you think of high-profile data breaches, what probably comes to mind are those incidents that t...
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Is UK Food Supply Chain Highly Vulnerable To Cyber-attack, Expert Weighs In
July 13 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The reported data breach affecting Spreadshirt, Spreadshop, and TeamShirts emphasizes just how impor...
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Spanish King Suffers PHI Leak In Latest Data Breach
July 09 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
A data breach can be a royal mess for any company or person caught up in having sensitive PII or PHI...
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Cyber-Commentary: Microsoft Warns of Continued Attacks by the Nobelium Hacking Group
June 29 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The news that the Nobelium Hacking Group—the threat actors behind the Solarwinds cyberattack—is...
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Mercedes-Benz Data Breach - Expert Comments
June 28 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Organizations not only need to be attentive to the way that they handle and process sensitive custom...
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New Kubernetes Malware Backdoors Clusters Via Windows Containers, Expert Weighs In
June 08 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Enterprises adopt cloud native strategies because they want to accelerate their ability to innovate....
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Expert React: Battle For The Galaxy - 6 Million Gamers Hit By Data Leak
June 03 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
It’s not all fun and games when a game developer of your favorite title accidentally leaks player...
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Expert Advice on News that Fake Movie Streaming Service Leads to Malware
May 31 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Enterprises shouldn’t ignore the alarming developments around a recent phishing campaign involving...
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Klarna Privacy Incident Was 'Self-Inflicted Bug', Experts Weigh In
May 31 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Any breach of personal information is potentially a serious one. Given that all the details are stil...
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Experts Reaction On News: GCHQ Breached Citizen Privacy
May 26 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Any one of your customers may be learning about this ruling against the GCHQ and coming to a lot of...
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Expert Commentary on Audio Maker Bose Recent Data Breach
May 25 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
In ransomware attacks like the one affecting Bose in March, we look for the slivers of good news: no...
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4.5 Million Passengers' Data Stolen In Air India Cyber Attack
May 24 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Attackers often target central airline management systems. They present attractive targets because p...
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Expert Commentary: Android Apps Exposed Data Of Millions Of Users Through Cloud Authentication Failures
May 21 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Unfortunately, we come across another misconfigured cloud service leading to the exposure of million...
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MyHome.ie "Inadvertently" Suffers Data Leak
May 19 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The report about the incident involving a leak of customers’ personal information at MyHome.ie str...
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Experts Reaction on guard.me Data Breach
May 18 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Personally identifiable information (PII) and personal health information are becoming increasingly...
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Expert Commentary: CaptureRx Data Breach
May 11 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Healthcare providers and corporations are among the most highly regulated organizations in any marke...
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Accellion Breach Leaks University & Health System Data - Expert Comments
March 26 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
As the Accellion-related fallout continues—this time at University of Colorado and University of M...
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Vodafone Spain Hit With Almost $10m Fine And Expert Reaction
March 18 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Every enterprise in or doing business in the EU should observe the fact that Vodafone Spain just rec...
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Experts On University Of Lancashire Suffers Cyber Attack
March 12 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
While it is positive to see that reportedly no data was breached, given the troves of personal infor...
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Experts Reacted On Retail Giant Kroger Data Breach
February 22 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
One interesting aspect of data security incidents is that they aren’t necessarily one-off events....
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Expert On Hundreds Of Thousands Immigration And COVID Records Exposed In Jamaica
February 18 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The unfortunate data breach in Jamaica exposing immigration and COVID-19 records underscores the nee...
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Experts Reaction On Kia Motors Suffers Ransomware Attack
February 18 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The very recent ransomware attack on Kia Motors America demonstrates just how important it is for...
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Singtel Cyberattack Via 3rd Party Accellion File Sharing System – Experts Perspective
February 12 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The breaches revolving around Accellion’s decades-old software—most recently affecting Singtelâ€...
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Experts Reaction On Hackers Steal Foxtons Customer Data
February 04 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
When we hear reports of data breaches such as the one concerning Foxtons Group in the UK, we can use...
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Experts Advise After Personal Data Of 1.4 Million Washington Exposed
February 02 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
The very disappointing news that the highly sensitive personal data of 1.6 million unemployed filers...
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Data Privacy Protection Day (Thursday 28th) - Experts Comments
January 29 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
In the wake of an investigation revealing a cache of personally identifiable information (PII) for s...
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Expert Insight: Dark Web Criminals Selling Stolen Tesco Customers' Account Details
January 29 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
In the wake of an investigation revealing a cache of PII for sale on the dark web, the computing edi...
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VIP Games Data Breach Exposes Millions Of Users' Data
January 28 , 2021 by Trevor Morgan
Another week, another ElasticSearch misconfigured server. This time, unfortunately, the gaming provi...
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Expert Insight On Ransomware Forces Hosting Provider Netgain To Take Down Data Centers
December 10 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The ransomware attack affecting the cloud hosting service provider Netgain must be of concern to its...
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Expert Insights: Faith App Pray.com Exposes Millions Through Cloud Misconfiguration
November 23 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The unintentional but unfortunate exposure of personal data for which Pray.com is responsible for ca...
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What Expert Says On New Canadian Privacy Law
November 19 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The introduction of Canada’s proposed Digital Charter Implementation Act continues the trend towar...
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Expert Insight: Info Of 27.7 Million Texas Drivers Exposed In Vertafore Data Breach
November 16 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The Vertafore data breach, in which the personally identifiable information of millions of Texas dri...
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Enel Group Hit Again By Ransomware And Netwalker Demands $14 Million
October 29 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
When multinational companies are hit by attacks and data breaches, it’s very easy and tempting to...
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Expert commentary: Razer Gaming Fans Caught Up in Data Leak From misconfigured Elasticsearch
September 14 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
Managing and securing customer data is no game – the breach at Razer is another testament that pri...
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Expert Insight: Data center giant Equinix discloses ransomware incident
September 11 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
Equinix’s recent disclosure of a ransomware incident appears to be hopeful in that the exposure of...
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Expert On Report: Cost Of Cybercrime Per Minute Expected To Reach $11.4 Million By 2021
September 01 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The costs of a data breach, as indicated by the RiskIQ report, are mind-boggling when you think of t...
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ProctorU Breach: Expert Commentary
August 13 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The mission of ProctorU is a good and beneficial one, ensuring that test-taking is fair and conforms...
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Expert On Family Tree Maker Exposing Users' Private Information
July 23 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
As the Family Tree Maker scenario clearly displays, security administrators, need to move beyond rei...
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Unsecured Server Leaks Family Tree Maker Customer Details - Experts' Comments
July 22 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
As the Family Tree Maker scenario clearly displays, security administrators, need to move beyond rei...
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Experts On MGM Hotel Breach
July 16 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
It seems as though what happens in Vegas doesn’t necessarily stay in Vegas. That includes peoplesâ...
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Expert Insight: Hacker Selling 142m MGM Guest Details on Dark Web
July 15 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
It seems as though what happens in Vegas doesn’t necessarily stay in Vegas. That includes peoplesâ...
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Expert Insight On Hackers Access Critical Data of Egyptian Transportation App
July 08 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
What is encouraging about this situation is Swvl’s commitment to react rapidly to the breach to de...
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Experts On Seller Floods Hacker Forum With Data Stolen from 14 Companies
June 30 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
A data breach occurs. Information is extracted and sold. Potentially compromised data puts companies...
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Experts Reaction On 26 Million LiveJournal Credentials Leaked Online
May 29 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
Email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords are valuable information if they fall into the wrong...
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Experts Insight On Wishbone App Data Breach Affects 40M Users
May 22 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
If data tokenization had been applied to the personal information of the 40 million registered Wishb...
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Experts Insight On Wishbone App Data Breach Affects 40M Users
May 22 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
If data tokenization had been applied to the personal information of the 40 million registered Wishb...
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Comments: Hackers' Private Chats Leaked In Stolen WeLeakData Database
May 13 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The biting irony of the situation aside, the serious takeaway is that no data is safe. Not even the...
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MobiFriends Data Breach: Expert Commentary
May 12 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
Email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords are examples of valuable information. Therefore, it...
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Experts Commentary On GoDaddy Informs Customers Of Data Breach From October
May 06 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
The good news is that GoDaddy was proactive in blocking the unauthorized individual, resetting passw...
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Expert Reaction On Chegg Confirms Third Hack In 3 Years
May 01 , 2020 by Trevor Morgan
It is almost inconceivable that this is the third time Chegg has been hacked since 2018. The company...
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