Executive Search Archives

LivingSocial hack results in 50 million compromised user accounts

By Tiro Security | April 26, 2013 |

LivingSocial, the daily deals site partially owned by Amazon, disclosed Friday that they had suffered a serious cyber attack. CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy sent an email to his employees to admit the resulting “unauthorized access to some customer data” and that they were “actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue.”

DDoS hacks against U.S. banks to continue

By Tiro Security | March 11, 2013 |

Hacktivist group is planning to launch more distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against U.S. bank sites as part of Operation Ababil.

Study finds 55 percent of SMBs were breached in 2012

By Tiro Security | March 8, 2013 |

Over half of small businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute as part of a recent study experienced some sort of data breach last year. Out of the affected businesses, a great deal of breaches were ignited internally, either by mistake or on purpose by employees and contractors.

Facebook has patched OAuth bug found by researcher

By Tiro Security | February 22, 2013 |

A very serious vulnerability was recently discovered in Facebook’s OAuth system, which would allow hackers to gain full control over any compromised Facebook account and access private user data.

Anonymous leaks banking execs’ info, Federal Reserve calls claim ‘overstated’

By Tiro Security | February 6, 2013 |

The world’s most notorious hacktivist collective, Anonymous, published a data dump targeting 4,000 Wall Street professionals.

Cloud computing on the rise, security must measure up

By Tiro Security | February 1, 2013 |

The tech world is moving to the cloud faster than you can say ‘Software as a Service.’ As the cloud continues to gain momentum, the security surrounding this growing technology parallels its rapid expansion.

Pwn2Own ready to hand out $560K to hacking contest winners this year

By Tiro Security | January 25, 2013 |

The annual Pwn2Own hacking contest has set the record this year as far as cash prizes go, putting $560,000 on the line to shell out to only the craftiest hackers around.