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More On Equifax with John Oliver
I think that a big slap in the face to the American people is that Equifax was also awarded 7.25 million by the IRS to verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud.
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Tagged 2017, breach, fraud, hacked, information security, IRS
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Equifax Has Announced Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
Potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S. consumers! For more information, check out https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/
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Tagged 2017, breach, Equifax, hacked
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Today Show: Hacker Hijack
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Tagged 2017, computer security, hacked, hacking, James Lyne, malware, phishing, ransomware, spear phishing, spearphishing
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Oracle Systems Breached… MICROS Point of Sale Systems’ Customer Portal Breached
Oracle had their computer systems breached and that lead to the compromise of the MICROS customer service portal. The MICROS customer service portal system had traffic going to a server owned/operated by Carbanak. MICROS is owned by Oracle’s retail division. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, breach, Brian Krebs, Carbanak, data breach, hacked, malware, Oracle
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1/3 of Wendy’s Locations Compromised
1,025 out of the 3,000 Wendy’s locations had malware on their Point-Of-Sale systems. Investigation has uncovered that infection and exfiltration of credit card information (names, numbers, expiration dates) going back to January of 2015. We believe this series of cybersecurity … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, 2016, advanced persistent threat, APT, breach, credit card, cybercrime, hacked, malware, PCI Compliance, Security Awareness
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Accounts Compromised
Facebook founder, Mark ‘Zuck’ had his Twitter and Pinterest accounts compromised after the LinkedIn data breach that happened back in 2012, through the recent sale of the emerged data. It’s proof positive that one must diversify usernames and passwords, close … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, breach, hacked, information security, linkedin, passwords, Zuckerberg
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LinkedIn Breach Data Leaked
Back in 2012, LinkedIn lacked some basic security requirements around password security and as a result, they were breached, data was stolen, and LinkedIn and most of the Internet media sites warned users to change their passwords. LinkedIn even enabled two-factor … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 factor, 2-step, 2012, 2016, 2fa, cybercrime, hacked, hackers, information security, linkedin, passwords, security, Security Awareness, two-factor
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Nissan Leaf API has NO SECURITY
Is it hacking if there is no security by design? If the doors on a bank are unlocked, is it breaking and entering? The API (application program interface) for the Nissan Leaf was found to be vulnerable. How vulnerable? Well, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, car hacking, hacked, hacking, Leaf, Nissan, Security Awareness
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Con Job on the Department of Justice!
A hacktivist, who had a compromised email account belonging to a DOJ employee, was poking around the DOJ portal. With the determination to get further in, and getting stopped with a challenge of needing a token code they were stuck… … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, breach, dhs, doj, dump, FBI, freepalestine, hacked, hacktivism, hacktivist, privacy, sb50, social engineering
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How Long Is Your PIN? IT DOESN’T MATTER!!!!
I can’t fathom setting up and memorizing a PIN as long as the person in this video has. Sometimes, no matter how secure you think you are by enabling encryption on your iPhone and using an ultra-long PIN number… Your … Continue reading
