All posts tagged "data breach"
CyberSecurity
You Cannot Reset Your Fingerprints: Major Breach In Security System Used By Banks And Police Underscores A Severe Problem With Biometric Authentication
August 15, 2019The fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well facial recognition information, unencrypted passwords, and other...
CyberSecurity
30 Years Ago Today The New York Post Shockingly Published A Stolen Exam Answer Key On Its Cover, Unknowingly Awakening An Interest In Information Security Just As The Internet Era Was To Begin
June 20, 2019Thirty years ago today, the New York Post made a dramatic move in an effort to...
CyberSecurity
Deja-Vu: Check Your Venmo Settings Right Now Unless You Want Everyone To See How You Spend Your Money
June 18, 2019If, like millions of other people, you use Venmo, the PayPal-owned online payment system that sports...
CryptoCurrency / BlockChain / ICO
Marriott Data Breach Compromised 500 Million Starwood Guest Accounts
November 30, 2018Marriott, one of world’s largest hotel conglomerates, said today that the guest reservation system of Starwood...
CyberSecurity
Google Shuts Down Google+ Social Network After Wall Street Journal Reports Serious Security Failure
October 8, 2018Google announced on Monday that it is shutting down its Google+ (Google Plus) social network for...
CyberSecurity
Facebook Security Breach Allowed Hackers To Control Up To 50 Million Users’ Accounts
September 28, 2018Facebook revealed today that attackers successfully exploited a vulnerability in its code in such a manner...
CyberSecurity
For Over A Month Hackers Stole Credit Card Data From Newegg.com Customers As They Made Purchases
September 20, 2018By simply inserting 8 lines of code into the checkout process used by the Newegg.com website,...
CyberSecurity
Yale University Data Breach Discovered A Decade After It Happened
July 31, 2018Yale University discovered on June 16th that its systems were breached sometime between April 2008 and...