Sep 20, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
The mainstream media is catching on to a post from last month in RedmondMag.com – about Cisco customers being hacked by “NSA Hacking Tools” – or, to put it another way, tools supposedly leaked from NSA hacker toolkits. By Kurt Mackie –...
Sep 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Oliver Stone’s movie about Edward Snowden, which opened on Friday, September 16th, 2016, has a lot of people looking back at one of the biggest information security breaches in US history, the one we learned about in June, 2013. That’s when the UK-based Guardian...
Sep 13, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
The massive data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that exposed background investigations and fingerprint data on many millions of Americans was the result of a cascading series of cyber security mistakes by the agency’s senior leadership on down...
Sep 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants has admitted that 60 of their 64 properties were hit by a Payment Card Terminal or Point of Sale Malware infection. The Kimpton Hotel Data Breach affected card processing servers within the Kimpton properties in 60 out of their total 64...
Aug 31, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
The hack of Dropbox was actually in 2012, but it is only becoming known now, that the number of affected customers was more than 68 million. Dropbox is quick to reassure customers that none of the accounts were accessed improperly, and that the forced password change...
Aug 31, 2016 | Browser Security, Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Opera was once a proudly Norwegian browser that was different from the rest in more than just look and feel. Most other browsers used one of three main core components: Microsoft’s, Mozilla’s or WebKit’s. (WebKit originated from Apple but has now diverged into...
