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The personal data for up to 14 million Verizon customers was discovered on an unprotected web server in late June by a cyber risk researcher.
The Verizon customer data was posted to a publicly-accessible Amazon Web Server by an employee of Nice Systems, which is an enterprise software company. Included in this data was a wide range of personal...
Timehop, an app for archiving social media activities, was breached on July 4. The breach compromised data for 21 million users from the company’s cloud environment including names, email addresses, and the phone numbers for roughly a quarter of them.
In an email to their users, Timehop stated: “The damage was limited because of our long-standing commitment to only use...
It's been a long compromise-filled road with billions of victims along the way, but businesses are finally embracing the need for creating a culture where good cyber hygiene is emphasized and rewarded. But how much is enough?
It is increasingly common knowledge that email attachments can be dangerous. And most people these days know that they should be using a harder to guess password than...
If you know anyone who maintains social media accounts and works in law enforcement, and they don't use an alias, send them this article. Scratch that. If you know anyone who might be targeted by hackers who has too much real information "out there" (i.e., most people), send this article to them.
It's no secret that people with high-profile outward facing jobs have long...
If the reports are accurate, a Florida-based marketing and data company exposed sensitive personal data belonging to 340 million records. The gravity of the situation is yet to be confirmed or even discussed by Exactis, but the leak is estimated to include 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.
If confirmed, this breach involves basically everyone in the United States.
Compromised...
Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster UK experienced an ongoing data breach affecting 40,000 people over the last several months, many of whom have since fallen victim to scams.
The breach was disclosed by the company on June 23, and included a full range of customer information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, payment data, logins and passwords.
As Wired noted, the breach...
Hackers may be in your phone right now (or your tablet). Think it’s not possible because your connected device is performing well? Think again. These hacks are discreet, using your device’s computing power to commit crimes.
In a study commissioned by Distil Networks entitled “Mobile Bots: The Next Evolution of Bad Bots” it was determined that as many as 5.8...
If Facebook’s ongoing privacy woes become any more regular, clocks may soon become obsolete.
This week’s (first?) news about the increasingly leak-prone company (or increasingly transparent company when it comes to leaks?) has to do with an accident.
Scratch that. What do you call an ongoing accident? Perhaps the correct answer, is Facebook.
The company has been accidentally sending data...
South Carolina became the first state to pass a law requiring all insurance entities to create and maintain a cybersecurity and data breach response program.
Among the law’s provisions is a requirement to notify the state government within 72 hours in the event of a breach or cybersecurity event affecting 250 or more people, the protection of policyholder’s personally...
A Chinese hacking group called Thrip has begun a campaign to hack satellite, defense, and communications companies in the United States and Southeast Asia, according to cybersecurity firm Symantec.
The methods used by the group represent an increase both in sophistication and aggressiveness. The intention seems to be disruption rather than more run-of-the-mill spying or information gathering. Thrip also targeted...