May 16, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
By Stephen Cobb Security professionals gave a large collective sigh of sadness this past weekend when BoingBoing published this headline by Cory Doctorow: “Half of Americans reluctant to shop online due to privacy & security fears.” Sarcastic remarks like “No...
May 15, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
The Swift global financial messaging network, which is used by banks to move billions of dollars daily has reported that another malicious attack on a bank has attempted to make us of their messaging system to potentially steal millions. The announcement by Swift...
May 12, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Wendy’s restaurants has released information about the investigation a breach in at least 300 of their 5,500 restaurants. Wendy’s said today that an investigation into a credit card breach at the nationwide fast-food chain uncovered malicious software on...
May 10, 2016 | Data Breaches, General Security, Sophos
In the Sophos Blog – Naked Security – it has been reported that Google employee data was breached by being inadvertently emailed to the wrong client by a benefits company. Did you know that a UTM can detect data-loss? Someone working at the third-party...
May 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Reported late last week was an article that exposed a data-loss (breach) where Cyber Criminals stole W-2s from the Credit Bureau Equifax. We will be referring to this as the ‘Equifax Breach’ here on out. So far, the only place we have been able to find...
May 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Reuters has revealed in a recent article that US security company Hold Security has obtained from a hacker nicknamed ‘the collector’ a list of 272 millions email addresses and passwords, mainly from Gmail and mail.ru, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Reuters spoke...
