Sep 22, 2016 | Data Breaches
Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) has confirmed the reports that many millions of its users have had information compromised when “certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor.” The...
Sep 21, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
A team of researchers was able to hack the controls of a Tesla Model S from a distance of 12 miles – adjusting the mirrors, locks and even slamming on the brakes. The Chinese security researchers from Keen Security Labs alerted Tesla to the vulnerability just over a...
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 14, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
Yesterday Microsoft released some 14 patch bundles to correct at least 50 flaws in various Windows and associated software systems, including a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer. About half of the updates released by Microsoft Tuesday earned the company’s most dire...
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...
