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 …
Microsoft announces retiring of SHA-1
Along with the standard security advisories released on this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has also released a few that announce the company’s intention to …
Sinowal and Zbot Trojan collaborate in new attack
Trend Micro researchers have recently come across an interesting example of malware collaboration involving the Zeus banking Trojan and a new variant of the password-stealing …
Microsoft updates the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited. EMET uses security mitigation …
CSA launches new Software Defined Perimeter initiative
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched the Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) Initiative, a project to develop an architecture for creating highly secure and trusted …
New secure USB Flash drive from Kingston Digital
Kingston released the DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0 (DTVP) secure USB Flash drive, as well as the DataTraveler Vault Privacy 3.0 Anti-Virus, which helps enterprises safeguard …
Fake Facebook password request email carries malware
Not ones to miss an opportunity, malware peddlers are piggybacking on the fact that Facebook is blocking the accounts of certain users and demanding they change their …
IBM to acquire Fiberlink Communications
IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, a mobile management and security company. Financial terms were not disclosed. With Fiberlink’s …
MacRumors forums hacked, 860k user passwords compromised
The popular user forum MacRumors has suffered a breach and is advising the entirety of its 860,000-strong user base to change their passwords as soon as possible. The hack was …
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 …
UK consumers demand to be told of all data breaches
The UK public wants to be informed whenever an organization suffers a data breach, and that more needs to be done to punish companies that lose sensitive information, …
Over 376k credit cards compromised in LoyaltyBuild breach
Ireland-based marketing company LoyaltyBuild has suffered a breach that resulted in the compromise of full card details of over 376,000 customers, and the name, address, phone …
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