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Personal info of 850k Oregon jobseekers potentially compromised

851,322 individuals who used Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon Management Information System (WOMIS) will soon be receiving notices that they information …

Spammers spreading new Wolf of Wall Street scam

Millions of penny stock spam emails have been flooding inboxes, spreading a new “Wolf of Wall Street’ scam and inflating the stock values of a mineral deposit …

Dropbox wasn’t hacked, says leaked credentials are from unrelated services

Dropbox has denied that they have been hacked, and that the login credentials leaked by a unknown individual on Pastebin are those of Dropbox users. The leaker released the …

Poor password habits plague our digital lifestyle

Poor password habits are putting employers at risk and losing them hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost productivity, according to new research from Centrify. According to …

Infographic: 4 authentication definitions you should know

This infographic by Wave Systems addresses current authentication problems and illustrates how to ensure that only known users access corporate resources, devices and …

Leaked Snapchat images came from third-party server

Snapchat is a mobile photo messaging app that allows users to send pictures that “self-destruct” a few moments after being viewed, and is especially popular with …

Dropbox bug left some users without their stored files

Popular file cloud hosting service Dropbox has been sending out emails to a “small number” of its customers, explaining that some of their files have been …

Flawed reused code opens zero-day in Cyanogenmod

An unnamed security researcher says that Cyanogenmod, the popular Android-based mobile OS, sports a zero-day vulnerability that can be misused to target users with …

Kmart confirms month-old data breach, payment card data stolen

First via a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and then via a press release, Sears Holding Corporation has confirmed a month-old breach that affected POS …

EU Commission and data industry to master Big Data

The European Commission and Europe’s data industry have committed to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership (PPP) that aims to strengthen the data …

HP to revoke certificate that was used to signed malware

HP has announced to its customers that it will soon revoke a specific private digital certificate that they used to sign some software components that ship with some of its …

Companies still rely on outdated methods to keep secure

Many companies are struggling to keep their networks secure against rapidly evolving cyber threats. Despite increasingly sophisticated attacks and rising complexity in the …

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