Ashley Madison forced to pay for deceptive security practices

Amit Ashbel, cyber-security evangelist at Checkmarx told SC Media UK, “on a day that Yahoo admits that one billion account credentials have been stolen. The fine that Ashley Madison got seems like peanuts.” “I think it’s important to enforce cyber-security in one way or another. A fine seems like the most obvious option, just like any business is fined for not fulfilling regulations or laws. That said, a tech organisation should always have their user’s data security as top priority and make sure they take all necessary actions to avoid such events in the future.”   The full article is available on SC Magazine.