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4.6M Snapchat users’ info compromised in breach
It took just a week for someone to take advantage of the full disclosure of several (at the time) unpatched Snapchat vulnerabilities, and the result is a published list of 4.6 …
Inadequate electronic disposal protocols can lead to security leaks
American IT departments’ decisions could inadvertently put organizations at risk of an information security breach if they don’t have sufficient protocols for the …
Compromised Adobe accounts include military and government users
The Adobe hack is truly gargantuan, what with all the stolen source code of a number of extremely popular software and the exfiltrated database containing user email …
Adobe’s poor password security forces Facebook to block accounts
The recent Guinness-world-record-sized breach at Adobe is poised to cause many problems for the users whose login information was compromised. It wouldn’t be that great …
Photoshop source code stolen, 38M users affected in Adobe hack
Remember the successful attack against Adobe’s networks made public earlier this month? Well, as it turns out, the damage is larger than initially thought. Early results …
DeviceLock now prevents data leakage from Macs
DeviceLock announced DeviceLock Endpoint DLP Suite 7.3 that delivers essential device control capabilities for corporate endpoints with OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion …
EU debates NSA surveillance impact and media freedom
The impact of US National Security Agency and other surveillance programs on EU citizens’ privacy and media freedom and the lack of democratic oversight of these …
Medical lab allegedly exposed consumer info on P2P network
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against medical testing laboratory LabMD claiming that in two separate incidents, LabMD collectively exposed the personal …
Leaked info of Federal Reserve employees was stolen during earlier breach
Hacker collective Anonymous has apparently leaked a file which supposedly contains personal details of every employee of the US Federal Reserve Bank – names, job titles, …
LastPass bug leaks plain text passwords
Users of popular password manager LastPass have been advised to update to the latest version of the software, which incorporates a patch for a recently discovered bug that …
Snowden given asylum by Russia, leaves Moscow airport
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation and has left the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, RT reports. …
US SEC data leak shows lax data access practices
When a former employee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission left the organization for a job with another federal agency, he “inadvertently and unknowingly” …