Even hackers are not immune to cyber attacks. The email addresses and private messages of over 470,000 members of a major online hacking forum have been leaked following a data breach earlier this month. Nulled.io, whose tagline is “expect the… Read More ›
A hacker known in the Dark Web as “Peace” is trying to sell the account information, including login credentials, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The social network admitted to the massive data breach after the hacker offered the stolen data… Read More ›
Few would argue that the open source movement provides a convenient and cost-effective way for developers to build applications. But according to a new study, once that code makes its way into an app, it’s rarely updated to fix newly… Read More ›
Cybercriminals got especially healthy last year, targeting the healthcare industry like never before. In fact, healthcare is the most frequently attacked industry, ahead of manufacturing, financial services, government, and transportation. Five of the eight largest healthcare security breaches – all… Read More ›
Sometimes it’s better to learn from the mistakes of others. One of the largest ever online data breaches has resulted in an $80 million heist from an Indian bank – all because it lacked a firewall. Bangladesh Bank was frugal… Read More ›
Cybercriminals are way ahead of the game against defenders, according to Verizon’s ninth annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). And hackers are so far ahead that they don’t even have to switch up their game plan…the same old tactics are still… Read More ›
More than 500 million digital identities were stolen or exposed in 2015, according to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report. On average, each data breach exposed more than 1.3 million identities, but the report identified nine ‘megabreaches’ (those leaking of over… Read More ›
