Lenovo today has patched a number of vulnerabilities that jeopardize private data, which are largely enabled by a simple hard-coded password in a freely available file-sharing application.
The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has sent a letter to its customers telling them about a data security breach involving their personal information earlier this month.
The company says that on Jan. 13, the company replied by email to a customer inquiry and attached the wrong file to that outgoing email.
Several U.S. health care organizations recently have disclosed data breaches potentially affecting thousands of individuals, including Blue Shield of California.
Backdoor attacks are going to increase in the coming year, as cyber criminals exploit patchy mobile security and SSL blindspots to gain access to private data and company networks. Many of the security products businesses rely upon are not equipped to monitor hidden gateways into the network. As a result, organisations will need to invest in plugging these gaps to ensure defences can mitigate against an increasingly varied and powerful threat landscape.
Hyatt Hotels recently announced that it had completed its investigation into a breach of its payment processing system that was first detected on November 30, 2015.
The investigation found that the attackers used malware to collected cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates and verification codes from systems at a total of 250 hotels worldwide
If multi-billion dollar software giant Citrix can let a major hack go under its radar, what hope is there for you? – that seems to be the message behind the latest cyber security attack, in which Russian hacker group w0rm claims to have been able to gain access to the content management system on the Citrix network via an insecure password.
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