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Recently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet

You might not have thought of – much less visited – Myspace in years. (Yes, it’s still around. Time, Inc. acquired it and other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.) But user data never really dies, unfortunately. For Myspace’s new owner, that’s bad news, as the company confirmed just ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S., that it has been alerted to a large set of stolen Myspace username and password combinations being made available for sale in an online hacker forum.

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Cyberattacks can cripple the construction industry

A shopper pays for her purchases at a Target store in South Portland, Maine. Criminals stole personal information from tens of millions of Americans in data breaches in 2014. Of those affected, one in three became victims of identity theft, according to research firm Javelin. Robert F. Bukaty, Nov. 28, 2014 AP, File

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Tumblr Mega Breach Affects 65.4 Million Users, Passwords Secure for Now

Independent security researcher Troy Hunt revealed today that he received a data dump that contains 65,469,298 emails and hashed passwords, which the anonymous donor said belonged to Tumblr users.

Credit card information compromised in O’Charley’s data breach

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — If you used a card at an O’Charley’s restaurant between March 18th 2016 and April 8th, 2016, your information may have been compromised. Recently, cyber-security investigators discovered someone installed devices that stole data from customers’ payment cards.

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Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Report reiterates the need for basic data security practices

ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, May 24, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ — IT Governance, the global provider of cyber security and IT governance, risk management and compliance expertise, is encouraging organisations to focus on basic data security practices to avoid a data breach.

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Hackers selling 117 million LinkedIn passwords

On Wednesday, the professional social network company acknowledged that a massive batch of login credentials is being sold on the black market by hackers.

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Survey: No slowdown in healthcare breaches

Nearly 90 percent of healthcare organizations were the victims of a data breach in the past two years, and 45 percent had more than five data breaches during that same time period.

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Six More Banks Supposedly Hacked by Turkish Hackers

The Turkish hacker group Bozkurtlar, translated as the Grey Wolves, has supposedly leaked data on six more international banks during the past week.

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One of the world’s biggest money transfer systems discovered ‘wide and highly adaptive’ hacking campaign

SWIFT, the messaging system used by 11,000 global financial institutions to send money to each other, said on Thursday that it had been hit by another malware attack on its systems.

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Microsoft’s May 2016 patches fix a boatload of vulnerabilities, including a zero-day

Hello, zero-days. And yes, you should be busy patching them, but Adobe isn’t releasing one of the zero-day fixes for Flash Player until tomorrow (May 12)—even though it is currently being used in real-world attacks.

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