by Shawn | Mar 27, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
Open Exchange Rates, a public API, has sent a notification of data breach to its customers, announcing that hackers had access to their systems and data for a month. According to the notification, provided by Sylvia van Os, a Linux and Open Source engineer/consultant,...
by Shawn | Mar 25, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
More than 200 million records containing a wide range of property-related information on US residents were left exposed on a database that was accessible on the web without requiring any password or authentication. The exposed data — a mix of personal and demographic...
by Shawn | Mar 23, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, News, Security, Technology News
The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world’s economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations. Cybersecurity firm Cynet revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis...
by Shawn | Mar 20, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
Phishing attacks have become one of the business world’s top cybersecurity concerns. These social engineering attacks have been rising over the years, with the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group coalition identifying over 266,000 active...
by Shawn | Mar 16, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Security Breach, Technology News
Cyber-security researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress—apparently powering over a billion devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, routers, and IoT...
by Shawn | Mar 9, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
If you are a T-Mobile customer, this news may concern you. US-based telecom giant T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach incident that recently exposed personal and accounts information of both its employees and customers to unknown hackers. What happened? In a...
by Shawn | Mar 6, 2020 | Access Control, Crime, Drama, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
The concept of hacking as a viable career has become a reality, with 18% of survey respondents describing themselves as full-time hackers, searching for vulnerabilities and making the internet safer for everyone. The survey, the 2020 Hacker Report, is from HackerOne....
by Shawn | Mar 4, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
Data privacy laws are evolving to allow individuals the opportunity to understand the types of data that companies are collecting about them and to provide ways to access or delete the data. The goals of data privacy law are to give some control of the data back to...
by Shawn | Mar 2, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) earlier today issued a warning to all industries operating critical infrastructures about a new ransomware threat that if left unaddressed could have severe...
by Shawn | Feb 28, 2020 | Access Control, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, News, Security, Technology News
New research finds it has never been easier for aspiring cybercriminals to impersonate companies and lure victims to fake websites. And potential profits are huge with some ‘salaries’ being promised of between $5 and $10k a week. The Digital Shadows’ Photon...
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