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Mobile security and incident readiness
AccessData and Gigaom Research released a report on the growing complexities of mobile security and the limitations of “preventive, policy-driven” solutions that …
American Express credit card data exposed
Corporate data breaches have seen a spike in recent months, and unfortunately American Express is the latest to join a long list of companies affected by hackers infiltrating …
AT&T hacker wants US govt to pay for the time he spent in prison
In an open letter addressed to members of the New Jersey District Court, FBI, and DOJ, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer is seeking monetary restitution for the time he …
iBanking Android malware disguised as legitimate apps
On underground cybercrime markets, iBanking is a well-known piece of malware, and one of the most expensive ones, too. “iBanking often masquerades as legitimate social …
Dropbox fixes link-sharing data-leaking flaw
Popular file hosting service Dropbox has announced that it has patched a vulnerability that would make privately shared links accessible to those for whom they weren’t …
Cyber intelligence services reveal sensitive data firms are leaking online
Cyber intelligence company Digital Shadows has launched SearchLight – a suite of managed cyber intelligence services designed to reveal sensitive data companies are …
Breaches expose 552 million identities in 2013
After lurking in the shadows for the first ten months of 2013, cybercriminals unleashed the most damaging series of cyberattacks in history. Symantec’s Internet Security …
Universities are a rich target for hackers
In 2013, HALOCK Security Labs noted information security vulnerabilities at colleges and universities along with numerous challenges that plague these institutions across the …
Passwords, messages of 158k+ Boxee.tv users leaked
The forum database of Web TV service Boxee.tv has been ransacked and the attacker made off with – and has subsequently made available for download – a dump …
Google: We didn’t access Arrington’s Gmail account to identify leaker
In the wake of the revelation that Microsoft has accessed a blogger’s Hotmail account in order to discover the identity of an employee who leaked company trade secrets, …
Microsoft accessed Hotmail account to uncover internal leaker
This week’s charging of a former Microsoft employee for stealing the company’s trade secrets could have passed almost unnoticed were it not for an important detail …
Mobile data leakage
Attack vectors in the mobile world are related to apps, content and web. In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2014, Mike Raggo, Security Evangelist at MobileIron, …
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