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Security Survey For Mobile Data Breach

According to the recent survey by Dimensional Research, Sixty-four percent of security professionals feel that their organisations cannot prevent a breach to employees’ mobile devices. Highlights of...

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Data breach at UNC

University of North Carolina Health Care recently suffered data breach. It is notifying patients of a potential data breach at two UNC Health Care obstetric clinics. The incident involved PHI of 1,300...

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Insider security breach at KY

Kentucky-based Med Center Health mentioned that a former employee accessed certain patient billing information without permission. As per the reports, facility found out that on two instances the...

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Hackers trying to gain access to US defence servers

US Airforce is attacked by hackers. It was the continuation of bug bounty program which earlier allowed attacks on Pentagon and the Army. It is an effort to allow security researchers to attack a...

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Stolen laptop leads to data breach

Lifespan Corporation recently suffered a possible data breach due to stolen laptop. The device belongs to Lifespan employee. An individual broke into employee’s car and stole laptop along with other...

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Verizon Survey

Verizon mentioned that increase in the propriety research, prototypes, and amounts of confidential personal data is the major factor for the rise in the phishing attack. It also mentioned that there is...

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Seventy four countries hit with WannaCry ransomware

Kaspersky researchers mentioned that tens of thousands of computers are infected in 74 countries worldwide by WannaCry ransomware. “It’s important to note that our visibility may be limited and...

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Increase in DDoS Attacks

Verisign recent report shows that 59 percent of distributed denial of service attacks peaked over 1 Gbps. Also, 23 percent peaked over 10 Gbps. The average peak attack size was 14.1 Gbps which is 26...

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IoT Security

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seeing the rapid rise but it seems to repeat the history of technology evolution. The pace of growth is not matched with security requirements. IoT helps automation as...

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Kmart Attacked by Hackers Again

Kmart suffered another data breach when its server was attacked by hackers. “Our Kmart store payment data systems were infected with a form of malicious code that was undetectable by current anti-virus...

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New SiteLock Application to Protect WordPress

WordPress open-source publishing is the popular platform for companies. It has also attracted cyber criminals. Sites face attacks frequently. SiteLock, a Scottsdale, Ariz. website security vendor has...

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Massive New Ransomware Attack

Recently world suffered a massive WannaCry attack. Now new ransomware attack was launched using same Windows vulnerability. Ukraine is the most affected country affecting government, transport systems,...

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Security Survey For Mobile Data Breach

According to the recent survey by Dimensional Research, Sixty-four percent of security professionals feel that their organisations cannot prevent a breach to employees’ mobile devices. Highlights of...

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Data Breach at Swedish Citizens’ Data Points

Unscreened third-party IT workers were provided full access to the information of vehicles including police and military by the Swedish Transport Agency. Management of the operations were outsourced to...

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Qualys CEO mentions that WannaCry a “Godsend” for his Business

Security vendor Qualys CEO Philippe Courtot mentioned that the WannaCry ransomware and the planned General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are “godsends” that will help the company to grow further....

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Complex Malware Installed by Simple Phishing Attacks

A new JScript back door called Bateleur distributed by the FIN7 (a.k.a Carbanak) hacker group through phishing emails targeting U.S.-based restaurant chains has been identified by Proofpoint...

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New Phishing Attack

Comodo researchers found a new ransomware campaign which targeted tens of thousands using simple email which contained only attachment and no text. The file name is E 2017-08-09 (xxx).xxx with the...

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AI to Hunt Security Threat

Versive which is based in Seattle recently raised  $12.7 million in a round of funding from Goldman Sachs, Formation 8, Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital. Total investment till date is $54.7...

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Current State of IOT

As per the recent reports, a list of IP addresses and login credentials for more than 8,000 telnet-accessible Internet of Things (IoT) devices was posted on Pastebin. GDI Foundation chairman Victor...

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Forcepoint Acquires RedOwl

RedOwl is acquired by Forcepoint to bolster user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) capabilities. Forcepoint, formerly Websense is cyber security software. It stops malware, attacks and other...

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