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Sources: Yahoo CISO Bob Lord out after AOL-Yahoo merger
According to our sources, Yahoo’s chief information security officer, Bob Lord, is losing out to AOL’s Chris Nims for the security chief’s chair of new umbrella entity, Oath. Read More
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Yahoo’s Bob Lord said massive data breach felt like Vertigo
Being the chief information security officer at the company that’s suffered the biggest (known) data breaches in history isn’t the kind of fame most CISOs would be looking for. But it’s Yahoo’s Bob Lord’s bag. His LinkedIn profile includes the line: “I lead the Paranoids, the information security team at Yahoo.” Read More
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Payday loan firm Wonga suffers data breach affecting up to 270,000
Payday loan firm Wonga has suffered a data breach affecting up to 245,000 customers in the U.K. A further 25,000 customers in Poland may also be affected, according to the BBC. Read More
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Teen quiz app Wishbone hacked, users’ emails and phone numbers exposed
Check your kid’s phone for this app, ASAP: Wishbone. This popular quiz app for kids, tweens and teens has been hacked, according to a report from Motherboard out this morning. The hack involved 2.2 million email addresses, as well as 287,000 phone numbers, many of which are from kids under the age of 18. Read More
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FriendFinder Networks hack reportedly exposed over 412 million accounts
If you have an account on AdultFriendFinder, Cams.com, Penthouse, Stripshow and/or iCams.com — and reused it on other sites — you should probably change your password. FriendFinder Networks, the parent company of those sites, has reportedly been hacked, resulting in the leak of of over 412 million accounts, according to Leaked Source (h/t to CSO). For context of just how big… Read More
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Yahoo turns automatic email forwarding back on, claiming “upgrades” required it to be disabled
Yahoo has today reversed its decision to prevent Yahoo Mail users from being able to automatically forward their emails to another address – a key feature that makes leaving one email service for another an easier process. Earlier this month, Yahoo Mail disabled this now-standard feature for email services, claiming that it was “temporarily” disabled because the feature… Read More
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Crunch Network
How predictive analytics discovers a data breach before it happens
Cybersecurity experts are constantly trying to keep pace with changes in the volatile landscape of IT security. Despite sophisticated tools and solutions, every IT security officer knows that data breaches eventually happen — and they usually go undetected for a long time. What if we could stay ahead of threat actors and predict their next attack before they take their first… Read More
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UK surveillance bill under fire as data security risk
A 2015 data breach of UK ISP TalkTalk should serve as a warning to the government that its proposed new surveillance legislation risks creating vulnerable pools of data that could be exploited by hackers, a parliamentary committee has warned. Read More
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GitHub accounts targeted in password reuse attack
Following a massive cache of LinkedIn passwords being dumped online last month, users of another online service — Github — have become the latest target of a password reuse attack as hackers apparently seek to exploit credentials obtained elsewhere to gain illicit access to user accounts and data. Read More
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How activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter account was hacked
Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their passwords — which means you’ll probably continue to see celebrities’ social media accounts getting hijacked.
Racial justice activist DeRay Mckesson became the most recent example of a high-profile account breach… Read More -
Recently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet
You might not have thought of – much less visited – Myspace in years. (Yes, it’s still around. Time, Inc. acquired it and other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.) But user data never really dies, unfortunately. For Myspace’s new owner, that’s bad news, as the company confirmed just ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S., that it… Read More
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Digital Shadows Gets $14M To Keep Growing Its Digital Risk Scanning Service
UK cyber security startup Digital Shadows, which sells a SaaS service to businesses wanting to monitor and manage potential risks by keeping tabs on activity related to their digital footprint — has closed a $14 million Series B funding round, led by Trinity Ventures. As part of the investment, Trinity’s Fred Wang has joined the Digital Shadows board. Read More
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Silicon:Safe Bags $1M Seed For Its Hardware Fix For Bulk Password Theft
Sony Pictures. Ashley Madison. Twitch. Patreon. Snapchat. LinkedIn. Last.fm… Those are just a handful of the companies that have suffered massive password-related breaches in recent years. Bulk password theft is the scourge of our digital times. Read More
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Crunch Network
Valuing A Data Breach Victim
In the relentless world of public breach reporting, there’s a fixation on the number of accounts affected; the higher the number, the larger the impact. But from a victim’s perspective, does it make a difference if your information was included in a breach alongside 10,000 or 50,000,000 others? From a criminal ecosystem perspective, the number of victims per successful breach… Read More
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EA Denies Data Breach After List Of Compromised User Accounts, Emails Pops Up Online
EA is downplaying reports of a possible data breach circulating online, saying that it currently has no indication that a list of user account credentials appearing on the site Pastebin were obtained by an intrusion of EA’s servers. However, the company says that, as a precaution, it will proceed to secure the accounts where the EA or Origin user ID matches the usernames on the… Read More
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Records Of 15 Million T-Mobile Customers Swept Up In Experian Hack
T-Mobile announced on Thursday the personal information of about 15 million customers was swept up in a hack on Experian, a vendor that processes the phone company’s credit applications. The breach affects new applicants who required a credit check for service or a new device between September 1 and September 15. Experian said the hack did not affect its consumer credit database. Read More
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YC-Backed Cymmetria Uses Virtual Machines To Decoy And Detect Hackers
YC-backed Cymmetria, which is uncloaking from stealth now after around a year working its cyber security startup business, wants to tilt the traditional security odds so it’s hackers who are left feeling vulnerable and on their guard — by giving the businesses whose systems are under attack a ‘home advantage’. Read More
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