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GOP hackers announce more Sony data leaks for Christmas
As the Guardians of Peace announced another explosive data leak for Christmas, Sony Pictures Entertainment got into incident minimization mode by sending out a message to news …
Sony hackers apparently wanted money
While we continue to wait for an official statement and/or explanation from Sony Pictures Entertainment, the stolen data leaked by the attackers and the analysis of the used …
Sony hack: Employees get threatening emails
Employees of Sony Pictures Entertainment have received a bizarre email purportedly sent by the hackers who took down the company’s network and systems. In broken …
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’ …
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