Tag: Data Loss
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Three Equifax execs sold $1.8 million of stock days after breach discovery
Three Equifax executives sold a combined $1.8 million worth of shares just days after the credit reporting agency discovered a massive data breach. But before it was made public. Read full news article on Graham Cluley
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Equifax data breach: what you need to know
To understand how bad the data breach at Equifax is, consider this: the US has a population of approximately 324m people. Read full news article on Naked Security
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Unsecured databases are (still) the low-hanging fruit of the internet
A ransom attack that wiped more than 27,000 poorly configured MongoDB databases in January sounded like it would be a pretty loud wake-up call for better open-source NoSQL security. Apparently, not so much. Read full news article on Naked Security
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News in brief: veterans among S3 leak victims; court rules on email privacy; man jailed for VPN sales
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Veterans and TWC users’ data spills from leaky buckets It’s only two weeks since we last wrote about yet another organisation spilling data online thanks to a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket – and it’s not a new problem – so it gives us…
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Online file conversion services – why trust them?
Let’s imagine that you just received an attachment on your phone, such as an image, a document or a spreadsheet. Imagine you need to edit it, resize it, convert it to a new format, or something similar, but you don’t have a suitable app on your phone, and you don’t have your laptop with you.…
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Is your email in the latest cache of 711 million pwnd addresses?
It’s never good news to receive an alert from the Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) project but it’s better to know than not. Read full news article on Naked Security
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No razzle-dazzle here! Hackers target Zazzle with run-of-the-mill brute-force attack
Online criminals have pulled off a tried-and-true password brute-force attack against online marketplace Zazzle. On 25 August, the company notified the Office of the Attorney General in California about a security incident that might have undermined users’ account security. Read full news article on Graham Cluley
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