Gawker breach triggers password-changing requests from Yahoo, Twitter

Gawker breach triggers password-changing requests from Yahoo, Twitter


Gawker breach triggers password-changing requests from Yahoo, Twitter

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:53 AM PST

The compromise of Gawker's database containing some 1.3 million user login credentials and the realization that a lot of users - despite constantly being advised against it - use weak and obvious pass...

Bank of America sues ex-employees for stealing confidential data

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:05 AM PST

Four former employees of the Bank of America stand accused of illegally copying a confidential database belonging to the bank's U.S. Trust and taking it with them to the new firm in order to take adva...

Review: Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 7

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:09 AM PST

In this day and age, and in the majority of cases, the company website is where potential customers get a first glimpse at your company. Will it be love at first sight? The design is important, as...

Delivering security on employees' personal laptops

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 06:00 AM PST

To refresh, or not to refresh? This is the dilemma that many corporations are facing. In an effort to reduce IT budgets, companies are cutting capital expenditure on new purchases in order to squeeze...

McDonald's data breach just the tip of the iceberg

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 05:48 AM PST

A couple of days ago, the database containing the names, mobile phone numbers, and postal addresses and/or e-mail addresses of McDonald's customers was discovered to have been breached and the informa...

FBI put backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC stack?

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 04:28 AM PST

Some serious allegations have been raised yesterday as Theo de Raadt, founder and leader of the Open BSD and OpenSSH projects, has made public a private e-mail he received from Gregory Perry, former C...

Insiders are most often responsible for data loss

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 03:19 AM PST

IT managers see insider threat as the biggest danger when it came to data loss within corporate networks (54 percent), according to a survey by Imperva. Far fewer respondents took the chance to bla...

Database breach that could endanger lives

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 03:06 AM PST

A database breach that could result in more than just identity theft is the result of a compromise of the online database of the Mesa County Sheriff's Department (Colorado) by yet unknown individuals.

Microsoft November Patch Tuesday bottom line

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 02:49 AM PST

In the video below, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek and Qualys vulnerability labs manager Amol Sarwate discusses this month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday release. To learn more about patching challenges...

Lack of awareness for PCI DSS 2.0

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 02:43 AM PST

New research by LogLogic has indicated that 13.8 percent of respondents are completely unaware of the new version and 15.5 percent confirm they are only partially aware of it. The majority (70.7 ...

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