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A gigantic trove of email addresses and passwords containing over 2 billion records has been discovered online.
The breached data, dubbed “Collection #1” by cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt, is more than 87 gigabytes and contains roughly 773 million email address and 21 million unique passwords. Hunt found an archive of the data on MEGA, a file-sharing site and has...
A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018.
Three terabytes of data were leaked, including evidence from hundreds of FBI investigations. Details in the material gone walkabout included financial transactions, emails relating to cases as well as letters from witnesses. Also included were email archives spanning 17...
U.S. citizens are more vulnerable to the effects of identity theft and scams as a result of the ongoing government shutdown.
The two primary websites created by the government as resources for victims of identity theft, IdentityTheft.gov and FTC.gov/complaint, are currently offline as part of the partial shutdown of the Federal Trade Commission. This effectively leaves victims unable to...
AT&T and T-Mobile announced that in March 2019 they would stop selling user location data to third parties. The announcements came on the heels of a Motherboard article that reported on the ability to track individual cellular phones via “location aggregator” companies with access to mobile customer information.
Cellular location data was sold as a customer-friendly feature that could...
The ongoing shutdown of the U.S. Government has impacted federal cybersecurity according to several reports.
The roughly 800,000 federal workers currently on furlough include:
45% of staff from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is tasked with defending critical infrastructure from cyber and physical threats.
80% of the National Protection and Programs Directorate,...
A cyberattack disrupted several major newspapers printed by Tribune Publishing shortly before New Year’s Day.
Print versions of the Chicago Tribute, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune, West Coast editions of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and others were the suspected targets of Ryuk, a ransomware program that propagates through computer networks in order to...
2019 will be the year consumers start thinking more about cyber hygiene, and the year Congress becomes more proactive in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity.
While the year ahead will not bring about a sea change, slowly the tide will turn and more people will start looking for and implementing cyber solutions. This presents myriad business opportunities.
Here are a few predictions.
Privacy and...
Unless you live in a boot at the bottom of Loon Lake, you know that everything you do online is tracked. When you load a web page, an array of scripts, cookies, and code starts chugging away behind the scenes gleaning information about who you are, where you are, how you got to the site, what you're clicking on, and where you...
This midterm election, a steady flow of headlines and heated controversy focused not on political leanings or flipping seats (at least directly), but rather on the security and integrity of the voting process itself.
Russian interference in the 2016 election and increasing awareness of the vulnerability to hackers of virtually any computerized system led to a scramble for U.S. election officials to attempt to secure...
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it experienced a data breach in October.
In an internal memo sent to employees, the agency disclosed that its “cybersecurity personnel began investigating a possible compromise of NASA servers,” and that they had “determined that information from one of the servers containing Social Security numbers and other PII data...