Michigan State University database with 400,000 student and staff records breached
Michigan State University has announced on Friday that a university server and a database containing information on some 400,000 faculty, staff and students has been accessed …
Riskiest shopping malls for mobile devices
As the biggest shopping weekend of the year in the US approaches, Skycure is advising shoppers to beware of mobile threats while browsing in both physical and online stores. …
New users flock to ProtonMail in wake of Trump’s victory
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the latest US presidential election, many people begun to worry about the surveillance capabilities that will now effectively be left …
A checklist for people who understand cyber security
By now, it’s pretty much an accepted reality that it’s only a matter of time until an organization – any organization – gets breached by cyber …
Will security concerns negatively impact the online holiday shopping season?
In a survey of over 1,900 consumers crossing the US and UK, Computop found 76 percent planned to shop online this holiday season. However, 62 percent of those respondents …
NullCrew member sentenced to 45 months in prison
A Tennessee man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for launching cyber attacks on corporations, universities and governmental entities throughout the …
New FCC privacy rules protect broadband users
The Federal Communications Commission today adopted rules that require broadband ISPs to protect the privacy of their customers. The rules ensure broadband customers have …
Over one-third of Americans have been hacked
Two-thirds of Americans believe themselves to be tech savvy, although their actions with regard to online security indicate otherwise – with millennials being the worst …
Unregulated use of facial recognition tech threatens people’s privacy, civil rights
Facial recognition tech is a boon to law enforcement, but without strict regulation and safeguards, it poses considerable risks to the privacy, civil liberties, and civil …
Critical cybersecurity priorities for the next US president
While the US presidential campaign has occasionally focused on cyber security, the topic demands more urgent attention from the individual elected as the 45th President of the …
Clinton campaign chief’s Twitter, iCloud accounts hijacked
Some 12 hours after WikiLeaks published emails stolen from the email account of Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta, someone has hijacked the man’s Twitter …
US officially accuses Russia of hacking to influence presidential election
With just a month left until the 2016 United States presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence officially …
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