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Researchers analyze destructive malware used in Sony hack
Who is behind the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack, and how extensive is it? These are two questions to which we still don’t know the answers, but new leaks and hints …
Sony breach: More leaks expose employees’ salaries, personal data
The fallout from last week’s breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment networks continues to increase, as the attackers leaked more stolen data on Pastebin on late Monday …
Sony Pictures hacked, blackmailed
Apparently, Sony Pictures was hacked. The breach has still not been confirmed by the company, whose only comment so far is that they are “investigating an IT …
Website fined for leaking encrypted card details and decryption key
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning organizations that they must make sure their websites are protected against one of the most common forms of …
The security threat of unsanctioned file sharing
Organisational leadership is failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing practices among their employees, and employees routinely breach IT policies …
Over one-third of all enterprise data leakage policy violations occur on mobile devices
Nearly half of all cloud app activities and more than one-third of all data leakage policy violations occur on mobile devices, say the results of the October 2014 Netskope …
Mobile carriers fined $10M for making private user info accessible via Google search
The FCC intends to fine TerraCom, Inc. and YourTel America, Inc. $10 million for several violations of laws protecting the privacy of phone customers’ personal …
What all major brands share in common with the Snappening
By now we have all heard about “The Snappening”—hyped as a high-profile data breach involving the photo-sharing application Snapchat. Virtually every news outlet …
Facebook trawls through paste sites for compromised credentials
In the spirit of November as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Facebook security engineer Chris Long shared how the company discovers that some of its users’ …
Dropbox wasn’t hacked, says leaked credentials are from unrelated services
Dropbox has denied that they have been hacked, and that the login credentials leaked by a unknown individual on Pastebin are those of Dropbox users. The leaker released the …
Leaked Snapchat images came from third-party server
Snapchat is a mobile photo messaging app that allows users to send pictures that “self-destruct” a few moments after being viewed, and is especially popular with …
Bugzilla bug that could reveal other software flaws has been patched
A critical security vulnerability in the popular online bug-tracking-and-testing tool Bugzilla has been patched, and users are advised to update to new releases as soon as …