Jun 23, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Acer has experienced a major data breach, with up to 34,500 of its customers thought to be affected. It has already submitted a “breach notification sample” to the Office of the Attorney General in California, which states that one of its ecommerce sites was...
Jun 23, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Carbonite Is Latest Victim Of Password Reuse Attack Back-up services provider carbonite has asked all their users to reset passwords, claiming that hackers used details from earlier breached websites. Carbonite appears to be the latest victim of a password reuse...
Jun 20, 2016 | Browser Security, Malware and Exploits
You mean you’re still Running Flash? Just ditch it – because all the prayers in the world won’t make this thing secure. If not, run Flash Update once more… and get ready for the next time… When, why, where and how are you running flash?...
Jun 12, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
According to multiple sources, there is a list of 32 Million Twitter username + passwords for sale on the dark web. This happened despite twitter stating that they have NOT had a breach. It’s quite unlikely that all of the passwords listed in the database for...
Jun 10, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Back in January, it was reported that Wendy’s Restaurants was investigating a possible breach. They made a statement that point of sale malware was found in ‘about 5% of restaurants’. That number just got a lot larger! While the final count of...