The insurance industry has been consistently targeted for cyber attacks as of late, for good reason: sensitive data is at the heart of every process—from handling health insurance claims to archiving medical histories. And because medical records are worth ten times more than credit card information on the black market, firms handling said data are required to take extra precautions in bolstering information security.
A company’s first few years can often give an indication of where it’s going, allowing us to make assumptions about its future. Bulletproof is still in its early phases, being just a couple of years old, but having been privy to the first official quarterly update, it’s clear that the business has a great deal of potential.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Some horrendous lapses of security this week, all of which I’m going to ignore as they are too obvious. The ones I want to highlight (oh dear, a pun to come, sorry), are in my usual sphere of interest: hardware hacks and IoT.