Posts Tagged ‘information security’
Anonymous attacks Westboro Baptist Church over announcing plans to picket Newton funerals
Following Westboro’s announcement of their plans to picket Sandy Hook Elementary funerals, renowned hacktivist group Anonymous began a plot to discourage them from protesting at the funerals and bring national attention to this hate-mongering group.
Read MoreAntivirus software, obsolete or still better than nothing?
Abysmal new findings have come out with the recent study conducted by cyber security firm Imperva. Antivirus software has gotten to a point of such infectivity that companies who purchase it are probably wasting their time and money.
Read MoreLawyers make mobile apps – is the information secure?
“There’s an app for that” is true for just about everything these days. Next on the agenda to conquer the digital age are lawyers who aim to further serve clients by creating individualized mobile apps. With the head in the sand attitude that many firms take toward cyber security, it is important for any legal professional planning to implement a mobile app to allow technology and data security to be at the forefront of the program.
Read MoreCoca-Cola hacked: secret exposed three years later
Coca-Cola learned some disquieting news March 15, 2009. FBI officials alerted executives of the multi-billion dollar corporation that they had been hacked, according to a Bloomberg report.
Read MoreLatest Bank Cyber-Attacks Originated From Hacked Data Centers
September bank attack originated from hacked data center servers not botnets
Read MoreFTC Wins $163 Million Settlement Against Pop-up Scareware Firm
The FTC announced a $163m settlement against an operation that used ‘scareware’ into tricking consumers into thinking their computers were infected with malware
Read MoreTop Universities Hacked By GhostShell
Hackers have attacked the world’s top one hundred universities as a protest against tuition fees and the falling quality of education
Read MoreWhite House Confirms Hack Of Unclassified Computer System
he White House has confirmed it was the target of a hacking attempt but the breach was against an unclassified network.
Read MoreGoDaddy Says Router Issues, Not hackers, Were Responsible for Outages
The outages at GoDaddy this Monday which knocked millions of websites offlinewere caused by internal problems not hackers the company said on Tuesday.
Read MoreApp Firm Source Of Apple Data Breach
BlueToad, a Florida based firm that creates digital and mobile publications says it is the likely source of a security breach which resulted in the leak of personal data from as many as 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad users.
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