Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Data Breach”
As you’re probably aware, recently a vast trove of Facebook profiles totaling 533 million in all, wound up on a hacker forum. The company was initially silent about the issue, but the company has now released a statement about the matter. Unfortunately, that statement isn’t terribly reassuring. The good news, …
A few months ago, it became widely known that there was a critical security vulnerability in Accellion FTA servers. Naturally, hackers wasted no time exploiting the vulnerability, and since then, we’ve seen a few instances of high-profile data breaches traced back to that very vulnerability. Flagstar bank is the latest …
Kroger, a titan in the US supermarket industry, is the latest company to fall victim to a data breach. In this case, the breach came about via a third-party service the company utilized called Accellion FTA. Hackers were able to exploit a Zero-Day vulnerability in that software and use it …
Do you feel as though you get a lot of spam mail? If so, you should know that you actually get almost a hundred times more than what you think you’re getting. However, most modern email systems (including Google’s G-mail) do a spectacular job of filtering, which keeps the vast …
If you do any photo editing online, odds are good that you use PIXLR. It is one of the most popular such sites on the web because it offers many of the features you find in professional photo editing tools like Photoshop and is available for free (there’s also a …
Teespring is a popular destination on the web that allows users to create and sell custom-printed apparel, including, as the name implies, custom-designed tee-shirts. If you use the site, you should know that recently, an as yet unknown third party successfully breached the site and made off with a couple …
If you have a network either at home or at your office, it’s quite likely that you’ve got a few pieces of Ubiquiti equipment somewhere in the mix. Ubiquiti is a major player in the network device market, best known for its UniFi line of networking products, paired with a …
Even the largest companies in the world can’t claim immunity to hacking, data breaches and momentary lapses in judgment. Nissan is a classic case in point. Recently, due to a careless oversight, default admin credentials were left in place on part of the company’s network. That allowed an unknown third …
In 2020, there have been a number of high-profile data breaches, and as we move closer to the end of the year, we have yet another to report. This time, cellular carrier T-Mobile is the victim, having recently disclosed a security incident that exposed the phone numbers and call records …
Japanese juggernaut Kawasaki Heavy Industries is the latest company to fall victim to a security breach. The company, which employs more than 35,000 people and has offices all over the globe recently disclosed the breach to its customers. The company discovered that one or more unauthorized parties accessed a company …
