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TalkTalk breach: Attackers demand £80,000 for stolen data

UK Telecom TalkTalk revealed on Friday that its website has suffered an attack, that it has been taken down as a precaution, and that names, addresses, dates of birth, email …

WikiLeaks publishes documents stolen from CIA director’s email account

CIA Director John Brennan’s private AOL email account has been hacked, apparently by teenage hackers with good social engineering skills.While it seems that the account …

Wealth of personal data found on used electronics purchased online

Varying amounts and types of residual data have been found on used mobile devices, hard disk drives and solid state drives purchased online from Amazon, eBay and …

T-Mobile customer data stolen from Experian already for sale

The personal info of 15 million T-Mobile USA customers stolen in the recently revealed Experian breach is possibly being already sold on the Dark Web.Irish fraud prevention …

File insecurity: the final data leakage frontier

The growth of cloud and mobile computing, the ease at which files can be shared and the diversity of collaboration methods, applications and devices have all contributed to …

How to avoid data breaches? Start by addressing human error

Small businesses in the UK are failing to train staff on how to correctly identify and dispose of confidential information which could lead to a costly data breach.A Shred-it …

Using external URL shorteners for internal needs may lead to sensitive data leaks

Using external URL shortener services to create better-looking links to internal company documents, sensitive files and internal websites is a practice that company employees …

D-Link accidentally leaks code-signing certs in its firmware

Malware peddlers don’t always have to steal or buy (from sellers on underground forums) legitimate and valid code-signing certificates to sign their malware with – …

Ashley Madison developers not big on security

Just a ten minutes long browsing session of the leaked Ashley Madison source code revealed to infosec consultant Gabor Szathmari a number of security mistakes that have likely …

Should a data breach be the kiss of death for the CEO?

The fact that CEOs have tendered their resignations in the aftermath of public breaches is a clear indication that the executive level is being held more accountable for the …

Ashley Madison-themed blackmail, data deletion scams hitting inboxes

In the wake of the Ashley Madison hack and consequent data leaks, blackmailers and scammers are doing their best to extract as much money and information as it’s …

Stolen Ashley Madison data dumped online, seems legitimate

As you might have heard by now, some 10 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen in last month’s Ashley Madison hack have been leaked by the attackers on the Dark Web and on …

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