The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has just released the latest details from their ongoing investigation into the attacks against their systems. Today’s announcement represents a significant escalation in the number of people affected and the risk victims face. Everyone who works or has worked for the federal government as an employee or…
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More details continue to emerge regarding the attack against the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Some of the details aren’t surprising – for instance that the number of affected employees has skyrocketed from 4 to 18 million. It’s not unusual for the scope of victims to increase as an investigation continues. It also…
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There’s another vulnerability affecting the Android platform that this week once again raises the question: am I vulnerable? Researchers from NowSecure announced at Black Hat in London this week a vulnerability affecting the SwiftKey keyboard on Android. The biggest concern is for Samsung Galaxy phones which install the SwiftKey keyboard by default and allow it…
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Add the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the list of recent large scale data breaches. With their announcement on May 26, 2015 that more than 100,000 U.S. taxpayers’ information was illegally accessed through the “Get Transcript” web application, the IRS has joined Target and others in the ranks of large scale data breach victims….
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On May 20, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced that they were the victim of a data breach in June 2014 that affects 1.1 million current and former customers. According to CareFirst, the data breach affects: member-created user names members’ names members’ birth dates members’ email addresses subscriber identification number. The data breach does not affect: members’…
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On Wednesday April 8, 2015 in France, the nature of critical infrastructure attacks changed for good. From 10 PM that evening until 1 AM Thursday morning local time, TV5Monde, one of France’s largest global television networks was brought fully offline by a cyberattack. The scope of the attack was unprecedented. Attackers were able to: Completely…
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