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Tag Archives: 2014
Got an @yahoo.com Email Address? This is for you!
Depending on the news source you follow, either 200 million or 500 million Yahoo! accounts have been breached, so…. if you have an @yahoo.com email address, change your password The accounts were actually stolen about 2 years ago, but it … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2016, breach, nation state, password, Security Awareness, Yahoo
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Revisiting Home Depot
Remember last September? It’s been just over a year since the Home Depot data breach. So far, the breach has cost Home Depot around $232 million and it’s expected to go into the BILLIONS as lawsuits get filed by smaller … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, billions, cyber liability insurance, home depot, insurance
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Scottrade Breach
“Cybercriminals had unauthorized access to our network for a period of several months between late 2013 and early 2014” According to a Cyber Security Alert page on Scottrade, Federal investigators found indicators that prove Scottrade’s network and systems was used. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013, 2014, 2015, breach, cybercrime, hacked, information security, phishing, Scottrade, social engineering
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18,000 Passwords from Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering
A breach at Penn State launched an investigation that usernames and passwords from more than 18,000 people may have been accessed. The FBI first alerted the university of the cyberattack in November 2014. The school then hired security firm FireEye … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, breach, China, passwords, Penn State, Usernames
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AT&T Data Breach = $25 Million Dollar Fine
AT&T data breaches exposed about 280,000 U.S. customers’ names and full or partial Social Security numbers. The breaches occurred at call centers used by AT&T in Mexico, Colombia, and the Philippines when employees accessed sensitive customer data without adequate authorization. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, AT&T, breach, call center, cell phones, compliance, cost of non-compliance, privacy, risk, risk analysis, Security Awareness
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No Awareness? $683,000 is the Average Loss
Organizations that do not have security awareness programs – particularly, training for new employees – report significantly higher average financial losses from cybersecurity incidents. Companies without security training for new hires reported average annual financial losses of $683,000, while those … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, cyber risk, Security Awareness
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Premera Blue Cross Breach
At the end of January, this year, Premera Blue Cross discovered they were breached. Possibly 11 million records of Personal/Medical and Financial information was exposed. After working with Mandiant and the FBI, the indicators of compromise date as far back … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Anthem, breach, credit card, cybercrime, hacked, Premera, privacy
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50,000 Names and Driver’s Licenses Disclosed in Uber Hack
According to Reuters, the ride company, Uber, was breached and around 50,000 names and driver’s licenses of current and former employees was disclosed. The breach happened in May of 2014 but wasn’t discovered until September 2014. Uber also filed a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, breach, drivers license, uber
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Kapersky Reports Increase in Phishing
Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. Information as of late, that has been getting stolen, WILL be used in more phishing attacks in 2015. Here is a snippet from … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, phishing, Security Awareness
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Phishing Anthem
Since my original posting about the Anthem Health Insurance Breach… Investigators believe the cyber crooks compromised the logins from 5 different tech workers, possibly through a phishing scheme that could have tricked them into unknowingly revealing a password or downloading … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, Anthem, breach, Identity Theft, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering
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