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Credit Card Breaches Linked To Security Cameras
News March 25, 2016
It’s been a rough few years for retailers of every size as they continue the struggle against hacking events and data breaches. The estimate for 2015 breaches was that every compromised customer or employee record cost the business an average of $154US. In one study of over 350 companies... Read more
ISIS Struck By Internal Data Breach
News March 10, 2016
It seems like you can’t do anything these days without dealing with the bureaucracy of it all. Forms to fill out, regulations to follow, miles and miles of red tape…and of course, the ever-present and usually outdated technology. Everyone from schools to retailers to even the government has to... Read more
Social media photo and video site Snapchat has had its share of headline-grabbing, embarrassing security issues over the years, some intentional and some due to its own inability to plan. When a hacker warned and then exposed nearly 5 million users’ accounts because of a bug that left the... Read more
TaxSlayer Software Developers Reveal Data Breach
DevelopmentNews February 8, 2016
As if citizens didn’t have enough to worry about during the tax filing season, yet another data breach has claimed the identities of nearly 9,000 people. TaxSlayer announced a January 13th data breach, discovered during a routine security check, that released the personal identifiable information of many of its... Read more
Sanrio Investigates Hello Kitty Breach
News December 24, 2015
Hackers are at it again, once more taking aim at children’s identifying information by breaching a major-name children’s brand. Sanrio, the Japan-based owners of Hello Kitty and several similar characters, was notified that a few of their websites were compromised by outsiders who nabbed the information from as many... Read more
VTech Hack Targets Children’s, Parents’ Data
News December 3, 2015
There were a record number of data breaches in 2014, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, reaching an all-time high of 783 in that one calendar year alone. Previous years’ results were hardly any better, with corporate, retail, and medical data breaches occurring at an alarming rate. But... Read more
Tor, Ghostery Give You Control Over Your Browsing Privacy
InternetPrivacy and SecuritySoftware Reviews September 1, 2015
Privacy is a hot topic right now, with the numbers of large-scale hacking events and major data breaches on the rise. One of the chief concerns for tech users of any kind is the tracking of their internet activity, especially with breaches that have recently involved membership accounts on... Read more
News updates on the fallout of the AshleyMadison.com hacking have slowly trickled out. News broke of the breach even before the hacktivists at Impact Team actually did anything with the information, meaning the public was made aware of the potential problem long before the data dump became a reality.... Read more
Staples: The Latest Major Retailer Hacked
NewsPrivacy and Security December 30, 2014
2014 has not been a good year for retailers. Every month it seems, another store is reporting that they’ve been hacked and that a ton of their customer’s personal information could have been leaked out to hackers. Earlier this year it was Target reporting that their POS system had... Read more
Target Data Breach Much Worse Than First Thought…
Internet August 28, 2014
Remember the huge data breach that happened at Target late last year? Yes, the one where their POS system was hacked and customer’s names, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. were freely handed over to criminals. Yes, the same one that pretty much made every person who’d physically shopped at... Read more
1.3 Million Orange Customers’ Data Hacked
Internet May 11, 2014
It has come to light that hackers have stolen personal data of 1.3 million customers of network operator and ISP Orange. Apparently the hackers have accessed names, email addresses and telephone numbers. What is a concern is that Orange France has been aware of the attack since 18 April... Read more
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