Russian hacking

Russian Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Electrical Utilities: Report

Russian hackers have successfully infiltrated the control system rooms of U.S. electrical utilities, the Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this week. Suspected hacking...

Medical Diagnostic Company LabCorp Experiences Data Breach

LabCorp Diagnostics, one of the biggest medical diagnostic companies in the U.S., disclosed that it was investigating a data breach that may have occurred...
backdoor

Top U.S. Voting Machine Company Admits to Backdoors in Products

Election Systems and Software (ES&S), the nation’s largest manufacturer of voting machines, has admitted they installed potentially compromising backdoor software on machines sold over...
data leak

14 Million Verizon Customers Affected by Data Compromise

The personal data for up to 14 million Verizon customers was discovered on an unprotected web server in late June by a cyber risk...
sureveillance

Walmart Patents Employee Audio Surveillance Technology

Retail giant Walmart has recently patented technology that would enable the retail giant to deploy audio surveillance on employees. The stated goal: measuring performance...

Fitness app exposes info on spies, military personnel

For the second time this year, an exercise tracking app has exposed sensitive information on military and intelligence personnel in several countries, including the...
Timehop data breach

Timehop Data Breach Exposes 21 Million Users

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...
Apple privacy

Is Apple a Privacy Champion or a Privacy Entrepreneur?

Facebook is now in the business of guessing when you will die. Google is doing the same thing, and of course they're still tracking everywhere you go in order to hit...
Piracy

The Cybersecurity Risk Some Companies Won’t Discuss

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...
dedox timeline

Is It Time for Your Employees to De-Dox Their Timelines?

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....