More Bad News From The Equifax Breach
The news just keeps getting worse for Equifax. The company has already had to revise their estimates of how many people were impacted by last year's breach more than once, and ...
Ransomware is Everywhere
Ransomware keeps appearing in headlines; attacking hospitals, banks, school districts, state and local governments, law enforcement agencies, as well as businesses of all sizes. Holy moly. This isn’t good. It’s reaching ...
New Vulnerability May Expose Encrypted Emails
Security researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have discovered a dangerous new email vulnerability called "Efail." Exploiting this new email vulnerability would allow hackers to decrypt emails encrypted with either ...
SSD Drive Makers Adding Features To Reduce Duplicate Data
Big changes are in the works in the SSD-based storage ecosystem. It includes three different vendors all making similar announcements regarding designs to help companies that rely on SSD-based storage systems ...
Chili’s Is The Latest To Suffer A Credit Card Breach
Brinker International (the parent company of the Chili's restaurant chain) formally announced that on May 11, they discovered malware on an undisclosed number of their point of sales terminals. Details are ...
Vega Stealer Malware Goes After Your Saved Credentials
There's a new security threat to be worried about, and security professionals are warning that it could be very bad indeed. The new malware is known as the "Vega Stealer," and ...
Your Kids’ Personal Info May Have Been Compromised
An identity threat company called 4iQ has recently published a report called "Identities in the Wild: The Tsunami of Breached Identities Continues." Unfortunately, the information in the report contains all bad ...
Fitbit and Google Partnership May Raise Privacy Concerns
Depending on which side of the privacy debate you're on, you're either going to love or hate this announcement: "Fitbit intends to use Google's new Cloud Healthcare API to help the ...
Seriously, what is the Dark Web?
The Dark Web… sounds scary, doesn’t it? And what is it? Like that Experian commercial you see on TV that promotes “free Dark Web scans” – WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? ...
