Showing posts with label Data Breach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Data Breach. Show all posts

Saturday 11 July 2015

Cyberespionage? How Hackers Stole Social Security Numbers From 21.5 Million People In The U.S

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - Data breaches at the U.S. government's personnel management agency by hackers, with suspicions centering on China, involves millions more people than previously estimated, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Thursday 2 April 2015

6 Biggest Business Security Risks and How You Can Fight Back

Security breaches again made big news in 2014. Yet despite years of headline stories about security leaks and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and repeated admonishments from security professionals that businesses (and individuals) needed to do a better job protecting sensitive data, many businesses are still unprepared or not properly protected from a variety of security threats.

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Cybersecurity: 10 Ways Employees Can Cause Data Breaches

In a perfect world, employees would have excellent cyber security habits and never put the company’s network or data at risk. This isn’t a perfect world, however, and the reality is employees do a lot of things that mess with a CISO’s on-the-job sanity.

Wednesday 12 November 2014

United States Agencies Struggle To Combat Cyberattacks

Workers scattered across more than a dozen agencies, from the Defense and Education departments to the National Weather Service, are responsible for at least half of the federal cyberincidents reported each year since 2010, according to an Associated Press analysis of records.

Thursday 30 October 2014

Data Breaches: Think Before You Share That File

It’s hard to read through the news nowadays without stumbling upon some type of data breach or leak. Recently, Apple’s iCloud service has been in the limelight, following the theft and distribution of celebrities’ private photos.

18.5M Californians Lose Data To Hackers, State Attorney General's Report Blames Rise On Big Retail Data Breaches

Huge data breaches at Target and other retailers helped fuel a 600 percent increase in the number of California residents’ records compromised in cyber attacks last year, according to a study released Tuesday.

CurrentC Mobile Payment System Hacked, User Info Stolen

CurrentC, the mobile payment service backed by the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), has suffered a data breach.

Beware! Hackers Are Using GmailDrafts To Update Their Malware and Steal Data

In his career-ending extramarital affair that came to light in 2012, General David Petraeus used a stealthy technique to communicate with his lover Paula Broadwell: the pair left messages for each other in the drafts folder of a shared Gmail account.

Thursday 2 October 2014

Can We Really Trust The Public Sector With Our Private Data? - Morten Kjaersgaard

Large companies and public organizations get hacked daily. Your personal information is no longer private, but is widely becoming more and more public knowledge, as your data gets hacked and then leaked onto forums.

Wednesday 24 September 2014

Nigeria's Electronic I.D Card: National Security and Unintended Consequences


                                                      Written by:

Don Okereke

President Goodluck Jonathan recently launched a MasterCard-branded Nigerian National Electronic I.D Card amidst pomp and pageantry.