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Yahoo agrees to pay $50 million for its historic Cyber Attack
Yahoo, the world’s second most popular web search giant has finally agreed to pay $50 million in damages for the historic cyber attack which led to the data breach of more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts. The hack which took place in between 2013 and 2014 was revealed to the world in 2016 by […]
Facebook says only 30m users fell vulnerable to the recent Cyber Attack
Facebook, the worlds leading social media giant has made it official that only 30 million users fell vulnerable to the recent Cyber Attack disclosed two weeks ago. The Mark Zuckerberg led company says that the Sept’18 Cyber attack exposed data of only 30m users unlike 50m as reported earlier and added that there was “ […]
Google kills Google + after bug exposes 496,000 user details
Google has finally decided to shut down the business of Google + after a software bug in its servers exposed critical user data to third-party developers. As a result of the data exposure of nearly 496,951 accounts, the business unit of Alphabet Inc. has decided to disable the consumer functionality of the service for the […]
Equifax Cyber Attack faces a lawsuit from Canada Citizen
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a cyber attack on its database has exposed sensitive info of more than 143 million of its American consumers. The leaked data includes social security numbers, driver licenses, and phone numbers as well. Daniel Thalheimer, 46, a citizen of Duncan, Canada has now filed a class action lawsuit against […]
The Long Life of Zero Day and Its Implication
A zero day is an attack that exploits a previously unknown security vulnerability. The creation and distribution of zero days by cybercriminals is on the rise with 45 new ones already discovered in Q1 2018. According to a recent report from RAND Corporation called Zero Days, Thousands of Nights: The Life and Times of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Their Exploits, […]
Australia’s First OAIC Breach Forecasts Grim GDPR Outcome
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. The first breach under the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) Privacy Amendment Bill was made public this week. While this breach means bad press for the offending party, shipping company Svitzer Australia, more frightening is the grim outcome it forecasts for organizations subject to GDPR regulations, which go […]
United States DHS confirms Data Breach affecting 240,000 Homeland Security Employees!
US Department of Homeland Security has made it official that a database used by Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General was breached affecting more than 240,000 Homeland Security Employees. The leak includes data related to DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Case Management System (CMS) affecting all the 247,167 individuals employed by the Homeland […]
Federal data of 123M US households leaked in latest AWS Data Breach
Critical data of more than 123 million US households was leaked to the public network very recently- all due to a misconfiguration on AWS Storage Bucket. Chris Vickery, a security researcher at UpGuard, Inc was the one who alerted the world about the data breach of the cloud-based data repository and said that the leak […]
Hackers siphon data of more than 46 million Malaysian Mobile Phone Users!
Personal details of more than 46 million mobile users in Malaysia is said to have fallen into the hands of cybercriminals. And the leaked info includes IMEI numbers, IMSI numbers, home addresses, MyKad Number, SIM card info and some of the private details. The leaked info is of users using the services of the following […]
Avoid a Breach: 5 Tips to Secure Data Access
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. Although the cloud is a boon to productivity, flexibility, and cost savings, it can also be a confusing tool to utilize properly. When organizations misunderstand how to use it, they often expose themselves to threats. While there aren’t necessarily more threats when using the cloud, there are different […]
