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If you have a LinkedIn account, you may want to think about changing the password. Although LinkedIn gurus haven't yet confirmed it, it's being reported everywhere that more than six million passwords belonging to LinkedIn users have been compromised...
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Reuters broke the news earlier this month that Internet giant VeriSign was repeatedly hacked during 2010. VeriSign does not believe the attacks breached the servers that support the firm's Domain Name System network, but at this point, has ruled nothing...
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A worm is spreading via Yahoo Instant Messenger that tricks people into downloading what they think is a photo from a friend but instead accesses a victim's IM contacts. If you receive a message from someone you know, with the word "photo"...
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Creating strong passwords to protect against identity theft. In the battle to keep our personal and financial information out of the hands of identity thieves, passwords are frequently the last line of defense. To an identity thief, there is a virtual...
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If you attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst between 1982 and 2002, your records might be among those involved in a data breach that occurred last fall. UMass announced August 5 there was a security breach between September 15 and October 27...
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It started in 2006 with the Office Max data breach. Then, tumbling like dominoes, came TJX, Dave & Busters, Hannaford Brothers and 7-Eleven. According to today federal grand jury indictment, Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez was the hacker responsible for...
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If you’re looking for a job, you already know it’s a tough market right now. Accompanying the bad news about job availability are warnings that identity thieves are reaping the benefits by posing as job recruiters, or hacking job databases. Unfortunately...
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UC-Berkeley is the latest data breach victim at an institute of higher learning. The notification letters and emails were sent out Friday to 160,000 current and former students to let them know records dating back as far as 1999 had been accessed by hackers...
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Remember when ransom notes were created with letters cut from magazines? No more. Now data kidnappers conduct “cryptoviral extortion.” "ATTENTION VIRGINIA I have your sh**! In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total...
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Some call PINs the Holy Grail; others refer to them as the keys to the kingdom. Now--thanks to hackers--you can call them gone. Until now, hackers could only harvest PINs one by one, or in small crops by phishing, or by attaching skimmers or small cameras...
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The Pentagon has implemented another Iraq-style surge, but this time the counterattack is in cyberspace. Brig, Gen. John Davis of the U.S. Strategic Command said today that the U.S. military has spent at least $100 million in the past six months to ward...
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This post is a sort of update to my Feb. 27 post regarding file-sharing software and the associated risks. I wrote about a New York family whose personal and financial information was accessed and stolen via their daughters’ use of a P2P software program...
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University of Florida has suffered another huge data breach, the third in three months. In the most recent data breach, the personal information of more than 97,000 students, staffers and faculty members was compromised. That any organization should lose...
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And so it begins. It’s been less than a month since Heartland Payment Systems revealed they’d been hacked and consumers’ data stolen and already three class actions suits have been filed. In the class action suits filed on behalf of consumers the attorneys...
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Three men in Tallahassee, Fla. were arrested last week on fraud charges related to the massive Heartland Payment Systems data breach that came to light in January. Timothy Johns, Jeremy Fisher and Tony Acreus are accused of using credit card information...
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