Jul 15, 2017 | CyberSecurity
The London-based health insurer Bupa Global is warning their policyholders that about 108,000 policies were exposed in a data breach that exposed the names, dates of birth, nationalities as well as other contact and administrative data of some 547,000 of their 1.4...
Jul 13, 2017 | Browser Security, CyberSecurity, General Security
It’s Patch Tuesday, so if you run Microsoft Windows or Adobe products, it’s time to patch again. Microsoft issued a dozen patch bundles to fix 54 security flaws in Windows and Adobe released a new version of its Flash Player available that addresses at least three vulnerabilities.
Jun 29, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, CyberSecurity
There is a new email scam going round, and it hit our desk this week – we spoke with the FBI and then we get a notice from them about it.
Jun 22, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, CyberSecurity, Data Breaches
Nayana, a South Korean web hosting firm, was hit hard by a ransomware attack earlier this month which hit over 153 of its Linux servers, and impacting over 3,400 websites the company hosts for its business customers. Nayana’s systems are thought to have been hit by a...
Jun 13, 2017 | CyberSecurity, General Security
With attacks like WannaCry and Xdata making headlines, ransomware is starting to sound like old news. Unfortunately, it’s not. More than 4,000 ransomware attacks have occurred every day since the beginning of 2016. That’s a 300 percent increase over 2015, where...
Jun 1, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, CyberSecurity, Data Breaches
Customer credit card information has been hacked from Kmart’s payment system, the company announced in a letter and announcement on their website. The Kmart parent company, Sears Holdings, is currently working with federal authorities to investigate the security...