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After a data breach is disclosed, stock prices fall an average of 5%

Data security breaches can negatively impact an entire organization – including sales, marketing and IT – and have a significant negative impact on company …

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Are you making it easier for identity thieves?

News of data breaches and the risks of identity theft and fraud persist, but consumers’ vigilance and awareness haven’t kept pace. A national survey by Experian …

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Stealing Windows credentials using Google Chrome

Attacks that leak authentication credentials using the SMB file sharing protocol on Windows OS are an ever-present issue, exploited in various ways but usually limited to …

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United Airlines cockpit access codes leaked online

A United Airlines flight attendant has inadvertently leaked access codes for the company’s airplanes’ cockpit doors, a safety alert email to United employees has …

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Major international crackdown on tech support scams

The FTC, along with federal, state and international law enforcement partners, announced Operation Tech Trap, a nationwide and international crackdown on tech support scams …

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Microsoft to governments: Stop hoarding vulnerabilities

Microsoft is full of surprises lately: first they issued patches for unsupported versions of Windows, then they publicly criticized the NSA for hoarding knowledge about …

WannaCry
Are you ready for a second wave of WannaCry ransomware?

WannaCry is a name that made many cry in frustration this weekend, and the danger is still not over. The first onslaught According to Europol director Rob Wainwright, over …

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Week in review: WannaCry disaster, SharePoint security, the importance of security culture

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Massive ransomware campaign spreading around the world like wildfire Organizations …

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Massive ransomware campaign spreading around the world like wildfire

Organizations around the world have been hit with the Wana Decrypt0r (aka WannaCry) ransomware, in what seems to be the most massive ransomware delivery campaign to date. …

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Analysis of 500 million passwords shows what you should avoid

A dump of over 550 million username and password combinations is currently being sold on underground forums, and eager crooks are paying for the privilege to test them out …

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US intelligence chiefs don’t trust Kaspersky Lab software

The big question in Thursday’s intelligence hearing on worldwide threats before the US Senate Intelligence Committee was whether the Russian government interfered with …

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HP pushes out fix for keylogging audio driver in its laptops

Swiss security consultancy Modzero revealed on Thursday that a number of HP laptops contain an audio driver that logs users’ keystrokes and stores them in an unencrypted …

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