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Tag Archives: 2014
HSBC Breach In November Reveals…
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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Tagged 2014, 2015, audit, breach, HSBC, tax avoidance, tax evasion
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Spear Phishing
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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Tagged 2014, 2015, Brian Krebs, cybercrime, email, hackers, phishing, Security Awareness, spoof
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XKCD Comic on Password Strength and Random Words
Use the Four Random English Word Generator!
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Tagged 2014, 2015, passwords, Security Awareness, xkcd
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Worst Passwords of 2014
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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Tagged 2014, 2015, authentication, Information Technology Security Awareness, passwords, reputational security, two-factor
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770,000 Records From One of Australia’s Largest Travel Insurance Companies
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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Tagged 2014, 2015, breach, Google Dorking, hacked, hackers, owasp, privacy, sql injection
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Vulnerability Found in Certain AMD Processor
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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Tagged 2014, 2015, AMD, video tutorial, vulnerabilty
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Is 2015 Going to be Similar to 2014 in Breaches?
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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Tagged 2014, 2015, Bitstamp, breach, Chick-fil-A, hacked, Morgan Stanley
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Happy New Year!
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
Data Breach Cost on the Rise
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Tagged 2014, breach, infographic, ponemon
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HackProof!
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