Saturday, April 26th, 2014
As far as corporate notices go, they don't get much creepier than this recent alert from US telco Verizon Wireless.
The company says it's "enhancing" its Relevant Mobile Advertising program, which it uses to collect data on customers' online habits so that marketers can pitch stuff at them with greater precision.
"In ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Nationwide arts and crafts chain Michaels Stores Inc. said today that two separate eight-month-long security breaches at its stores last year may have exposed as many as 3 million customer credit and debit cards.
The disclosure, made jointly in a press release posted online and in a statement on the company’s Web site, offers the first ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
LaCie is the latest major retailer and tech company finding itself to be the target of a major security breach by unknown assailants.
The French hardware company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that malware successfully made its way through to access sensitive customer information stemming from transactions on its website.
Here's where things ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2014
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
Tens of millions of the home routers we rely on everyday for internet access are enabling Domain Name System (DNS) based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and owners may never even know it, according to research by DNS software provider Nominum.
Working collaboratively with the Open Resolver Project, Nominum learned that open ...
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