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Chinese iPhone users being hacked
According to security and censorship watchdog Great Fire, the latest iPhone just made its debut in China, and already new owners are being hacked by what appears to be a state-sponsored “man in the middle” attack. Though there have been many other allegedly government-backed attacks on US-based companies, presumably for commercial or political gain, this
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A Veritable Parade of Breaches
If you thought you had data breach fatigue, prepare to be exhausted this week: Hacker tries to scam Internet with fake DropBox password database – DropBox refutes the claim, noting the “proof of hack” provided consisted of known stolen passwords from other sources. Kmart Hacked – Undisclosed Quantity of Credit Card Numbers Stolen – Sears-owned retail
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Poorly configured website exposes customer data
First the country’s largest bank has a huge data breach, and now the nation’s largest bond insurer admits that it inadvertently exposed sensitive customer information through its website. As an example of the old maxim, “Man has no greater enemy than himself,” MBIA, Inc. allowed unfettered access to a subset of very sensitive customer information
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Public shrugging off data breaches?
America’s biggest bank JP Morgan Chase announced last week that it was the latest victim of a major security breach. According to their regulatory filing, data from nearly 80 million customers was exposed in a successful hacking attempt earlier this year. Though the bank was quick to emphasize that our money and most sensitive bits
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Microsoft skips to Windows 10
Obviously stung by the world’s tepid reception of Windows 8, Microsoft announced that the next version of their operating system will be skipping Windows 9 and heading straight to 10. The jump is meant to signify a considerable advancement in the base operating system: this version of Windows isn’t just an incremental upgrade or updated
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Heartbleed bug has a “sequel” – Shellshock
While the world is trying to mop up the mess that Heartbleed left behind, along comes another vulnerability that might be just as big. Dubbed “Shellshock” because it affects the Bash shell commonly found on Linux computers, and (this may surprise you) some Mac OS X servers. “Shells” are the technical term for the user
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