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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. All LinkedIn spokespersons have said thus...
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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 out. Should that particular network be breached...
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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" or "photos" and a smiley face icon, along...
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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 treasure-trove of information stored online. Web...
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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, 2008 in which a single server was penetrated. The...
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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 them all. Gonzalez, 28, and two unnamed Russian co...
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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, there’s another example of the latter. Aetna...
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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 thought to be based in Asia. The source of...
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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 of 35,548,087 prescriptions. Also, I made an encrypted...
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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 to ATMs, gas pumps and the like. But now hackers...
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