Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
The UPS Store, Inc. recently received a government bulletin regarding a broad-based malware intrusion targeting retailers in the United States. The UPS Store takes seriously its responsibility to protect customer information and immediately launched an internal review, implemented system enhancements and engaged an IT security firm.
An assessment by The UPS ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
1.2 billion passwords reportedly stolen by Russian hackers. Before that it was Heartbleed.
After a widespread, nonspecific data breach, the conventional wisdom is that people should change all their passwords. But, there’s a better way. With the right password management habits, you won’t need to change all your passwords ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
One of the country's biggest hospital operators, Community Health Systems, on Monday announced that its computer network was the "target of an external, criminal cyber attack" which saw the compromise of patient identification data for "approximately 4.5 million individuals."
The attacker or attackers are believed to have originated in China, according ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2014
Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps.
Want to see what kind of data it has on you? Check out Google’s own location history map, which lets you see the path you’ve traced for any given day that your smartphone has been running Google Maps.
In the ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2014
Researchers have discovered click fraud malware designed to “hide in plain sight” and evade traditional security tools by embedding data into an image file.
Lurk is a downloader which uses digital steganography – the art of hiding information in images, audio or video files, according to a Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat ...
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