What people think about passwords, email snooping and personal data
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Fortinet published new research that shows where Millennials and Gen-Xers stand in regards to passwords, online marketing practices, …
Nearly 310,000 affected in University of Maryland breach
University of Maryland is the latest higher learning institution to have suffered a data breach of considerable scope and proportions, as nearly 310,000 records of staff and …
Major vulnerability in Tinder dating app allowed user tracking
Include Security unveiled new research showing that users of the popular online dating app Tinder were at significant risk due to a vulnerability they discovered in the …
800M exposed records make 2013 record year for data breaches
Despite oft repeated claims that the insider threat is the one organizations should be looking out for, the numbers and statistics related to 2013 data breaches show that risk …
NSA and GCHQ targeted WikiLeaks and supporters
Newly analyzed documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s trove point to the US NSA and the UK GCHQ targeting WikiLeaks, its supporters and other activists, and …
SEA hacks Forbes, steals and leaks 1M user records
Business news site Forbes and its registered users are the latest victims of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker collective, which proved that they have broken into the …
Kickstarter suffers data breach
If you ever supported a Kickstarter project, you know by now that the popular crowdfunding platform has experience a data breach and that some of your information was …
NSA snooping: MEPs table proposals to protect EU citizens’ privacy
The European Parliament should withhold its consent to an EU-US trade deal unless it fully respects EU citizens’ data privacy, says an inquiry report on NSA and EU …
Exposing the profitability of private data
Security breaches, cyber criminals, and organized attacks made it nearly impossible to keep personal and financial data private, according to Trend Micro. This annual report …
Three US medical device makers breached?
The computer networks of three big medical device makers have been breached by still unknown attackers that were likely after the companies’ intellectual property, the …
Account details of 27,000 Barclays customers stolen, sold to brokers
(In)famous UK-based multinational bank Barclays has been hit this Friday with claims that someone has stolen personal and financial information of some 27,000 of its customers …
Target attackers misused network credentials of HVAC company
Sources close to the Target breach investigation have named the third-party vendor whose network credentials the attackers used to gain access to Target’s systems. The …