Tag: Security

Your Security Questions Aren’t Providing Much Security
Everyone's favorite food is pizza, so when a site asks you to provide an answer for the security question What's your favorite food, don't say pizza. Providing answers...
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Survey Looks At Security Attitudes And Behaviors Across Industries
Biscom shared some results of a new IT Survey finding that although regulated industries say security is a high concern, many are still using solutions that are inadequate for prot...
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Florida Sheriff Charging Teen with ‘Hacking’: Change the Law If You’re Mad
Sheriff Chris Nocco of the Pasco County, Florida, Sheriff's office isn't all that concerned that his department is being mocked across the country. Last week, we told you about...
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Sandra Bullock Stalker Knew Her Security Measures
Sandra Bullock had a scary conversation with a 911 dispatcher for 15 minutes while waiting for police to arrest the man who was stalking her. When Sandra Bullock called police f...
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Uber Steals Facebook’s Chief Security Officer
Uber's just put a likely considerable amount of money where its mouth is, in regards to its promise to beef up the app's safety and security. The on-demand ride company...
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Obama Approves Sanctions on Cyber-Attackers
Today, President Obama signed an executive order that will allow the US government to go after those who perpetrate cyber attacks with sanctions "Cyber intrusions and attacks  –...
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Uber Denies Breach After User Info Goes Up for Sale
Uber says that it has found no evidence of a security breach following reports that user data has popped up for sale on dark web sites....
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Target OKs $10M Settlement over Massive Data Breach
Target has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by victims of the company's 2013 data breach – a massive hack that exposed up to 70 million people....
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LinkedIn Settles Lawsuit Over Massive Password Leak
LinkedIn has settled a class-action lawsuit filed shortly after the social network allowed over 6.5 million passwords to be exposed by Russian hackers in 2012. And apparently, Link...
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Automatic Web Application Security Scans or Manual Penetration Testing?
Commissioned News Story (Source: Netsparker) Automatic versus manual. A heavily debated subject whatever you speak of, and it is no different in the web application sec...
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Android XML File Can Crash Devices
Apparently all Android apps have a file called the AndroidManifest.xml, and this contains information the system has to have before it can run any of the app's code. So it's a pret...
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Florida Man Posts Stolen Nude Photos to Victim’s Mom’s Facebook Page
Florida Man, the world's worst superhero, is at it again. This time he's engaging in some real top-shelf creepster activity, "hacking" Facebook accounts and posting nude photos to...
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‘123456’ Is Still the Most Common Password, So, Congrats Guys
Congratulations are in order, as a year of corporate data spills and leaked Jennifer Lawrence nudes failed to move the most stubborn among us. Privacy be damned, people still enjoy...
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Google Is Shutting Down The Google Earth API
Google announced that it will stop offering its Google Earth API a year from now. The company says it's going away for security reasons, and in accordance with its policy, will off...
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Cisco To Acquire Security Company Neohapsis
Cisco announced that it intends to acquire Neohapsis, a company which offers network, cloud, and app security, as well as IT risk and compliance services. Cisco says it will us...
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