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Google announced that it will be shutting down consumer use of the long-ailing social platform Google+ after it was revealed that a security bug dating back more than six months was not disclosed by the company.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google may have opted not to disclose the bug at least in part to avoid regulatory scrutiny, though...
Apple’s iOS 12 update includes a workaround that can allow a hacker to access a device’s photos and contacts without having the passcode to unlock it.
It does not, however, allow unauthorized users full access to the device, and executing the workaround isn’t exactly an easy thing to do. Security research Jose Rodriguez recently posted a Youtube video showing...
Facebook has had a hard year, and it just got worse. The company announced that it was compromised, and 50 million users were affected. The company discovered the breach on Tuesday, and reported it three days later.
While 50 million users may seem like relatively minor news given the total number of Facebook users out there, it’s roughly the...
An email server containing “sensitive but unclassified” data belonging to the State Department was breached, the government agency announced earlier this month. The information included personally identifiable information of an undisclosed number of employees who have since been notified.
While the breach itself is relatively minor, it highlights the relative lack of progress made by the department to enact...
Email systems used by some county election officials lack rudimentary security settings and are vulnerable to hacking, according to a recent survey conducted by the nonprofit investigative newsroom, ProPublica.
Propublica’s findings include eleven offices protected by only a login and password. Election security best practices suggest 2-Factor authentication for sensitive email accounts. This simple protocol requires a second account...
The first major piece of cybersecurity legislation to address vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices has passed in California, and is ready to be signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.
First introduced in 2017 by State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, SB-327 calls for “a manufacturer of a connected device… to equip with a reasonable security feature or...
The Government Accountability Office released a report detailing last year’s massive Equifax data breach and how hackers were able to infiltrate the company’s systems to gain access to the personal information of at least 145.5 million individuals.
According to the report, the hackers took advantage of a recently announced vulnerability in a web server technology called Apache Struts, which...
Adam Levin spoke with Columbus Business First at BizJournals about the recent cyber attack which hit an Ohio property management group.
"Companies should be very vigorous when it comes to monitoring their systems," Levin said in reference to the breach.
Read the article here.
Only 34.5 % of the approximately 500 professionals responsible for compliance to the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) report maintaining practices that are in keeping with the regulation, a recent Deloitte poll.
According to the poll, one-third of respondents (32.7 %) hope to be compliant within 2018. And, 11.7% plan to take a “wait and see” approach amid...
On the heels of last weeks news that Air Canada suffered a breach affecting thousands of customers, British Airways announced a major breach affecting 380,000 customers who used the company’s website and app over a two-week period.
From August 21 to September 5, hackers stole British Airways customer user names, addresses, email addresses and credit card information (including expiration...