It isn’t a matter of “if”–it’s a matter of “when”. The answer for UPS is between January and August of this year at approximately 50 of its retail stores. UPS announced this week that it has discovered that its point-of-sale […]
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Hold Security revealed this week that a Russian cybercrime group has amassed a database of over a billion compromised passwords. Hold gets credit for discovering and announcing this massive breach, but the way it went about it seems a bit
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While the US military was busy watching Iran, China, and North Korea, an insider–Bradley Manning–compromised classified information. While the NSA was busy spying on would-be terrorists, an insider–Edward Snowden–exposed confidential secrets. Companies and government agencies of all sizes around the
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Most organizations are aware of the risks and threats facing their networks and data, and they strive to adequately defend themselves. Many organizations also allow third-parties like partners, vendors, or suppliers to access their networks, or maintain permanent connections to
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What is scarier: an attacker with access to your eBay account, or an attacker with knowledge of your home address, phone number, and date of birth? I’ll give you a hint–nobody really cares about your eBay account, but the other
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The United States and China have a strange relationship. They are rival nations that don’t trust each other, and yet work very closely together in many ways. China is a communist nation–that owns a huge stake in US capitalism, and
DOJ throws down the gauntlet with cyber crime charges against Chinese military Read More »
Threat intelligence is like a jigsaw puzzle where every company under attack only has a few pieces, and nobody has any idea what the final picture is supposed to be once all of the pieces are assembled. If all you
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As 2013 winds to a close, it’s time to look back at the biggest security events and incidents of the year. Here’s hoping there are some lessons to be learned—something to provide a foundation for stronger protection and a safer
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Details of the actual hack are still sketchy, but so far it seems that if you shopped at an actual Target store between Black Friday and December 15 it’s a virtual certainty that your credit or debit card info is among the
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Hackers have exposed millions of passwords from Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Sadly, password compromise is so common that it barely even registers as news any more. Suffice to say that it’s probably time to change your password again. Ideally, a
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