Tag Archives: 2014

HSBC Breach In November Reveals…

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Carmelo

HSBC Holdings plc, a British multinational banking and financial services company head-quartered in London, United Kingdom is the world’s second largest bank. Last November, they were breached. HSBC claimed that it “stopped the cyber-attack”, but not before attackers accessed payment … Continue reading →

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Spear Phishing

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Carmelo

Cyber thieves stole nearly $215 million from businesses in the last 14 months using email scams. Once a high level exec has his or her email compromised, the bad guys lurk, learn the schedules, learn the business, learn the business … Continue reading →

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XKCD Comic on Password Strength and Random Words

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Carmelo

Use the Four Random English Word Generator!

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Worst Passwords of 2014

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Carmelo

An analysis of the most leaked passwords that were posted online throughout 2014, out of the 3.3 million passwords leaked online, the most common, Top 15 were: 123456 password 12345 12345678 qwerty 1234567890 1234 baseball dragon football 1234567 monkey letmein … Continue reading →

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770,000 Records From One of Australia’s Largest Travel Insurance Companies

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Carmelo

Around the number of 770,000 records of personal information consisting of travel insurance clients, names, phone numbers, email addresses, travel dates and prices for policies was stolen around December 18th. Aussie Travel Cover notified 3rd party agents, but did not … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability Found in Certain AMD Processor

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Carmelo

A vulnerability was found in AMD Processors that insufficiently protected code signatures and other errors in the firmware could be used by hackers to inject software, which could then be executed by the System Management Unit and Accelerated Processing Units. … Continue reading →

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Is 2015 Going to be Similar to 2014 in Breaches?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Carmelo

On January 2nd, Chick-fil-A released a statement in regards to the security breach they found out about on December 19th, 2014. One unnamed financial institution said it received an alert that contained “nearly 9,000 customer cards” for a breach that … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Carmelo

As 2014 sunsets for the final time tonight, and 2015 rises tomorrow, let’s make a joint resolution, resolve to: Educate your employees, customers, friends, and family Create a response plan and practice it. what to do if your Identity is … Continue reading →

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Data Breach Cost on the Rise

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Carmelo
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HackProof!

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Carmelo

From Dorkly

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