Capital One
Capital One Hack ‘Could be Tip of the Iceberg’
The data breach of US bank Capital One that this week exposed the personal data of over 100-million US customers may be only the start of a series of breach notifications from other organisations. According to research conducted by Israel-based cybersecurity company CyberInt, the threat actor allegedly responsible for the Capital One breach tried to mask their identity and IP address by connecting to ‘IPredator’, a Sweden-based virtual private network.
Video Surveillance Technology To Have Biggest Impact On Security Businesses in 2017, Capital One Survey Finds
A Capital One survey found that more than half (52 percent) of security professionals see video surveillance as the technology trend that will have the biggest impact on their businesses in the coming year – a significant increase from 2015 when only 23 percent of respondents answered similarly. Growth of interconnected devices (the “Internet of Things”) was cited as the next most significant trend at 28 percent.