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Tag Archives: 2015
Schools Hacked
The University of California Berkeley school was hit with a data breach that might have exposed students’ Social Security numbers. The data held in the breached computer included Names, Social Security, and bank account numbers. The breach affected about 260 … Continue reading
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
If you visited a restaurant, bar, or retail outlet at a Hard Rock Hotel or Casino between September 3rd, 2014 and April 2nd, 2015 in Las Vegas, and don’t have credit monitoring set up, please check your statements and/or sign … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, breach, credit card, hacked, hard rock cafe, hotel, restaurant, retailers
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How Social Engineering Affected Tesla
In totally uncool moves, two Tesla owned accounts were hijacked via social engineering: A bad guy called AT&T customer support and pretended to be a Tesla employee. This person then demanded all phone calls to the company be forwarded to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hacked, hackers, Security Awareness, social engineering, Tesla, Third Party Assessments
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Seven Deadly Employee Sins – How Companies Get Compromised
The average person thinks that companies get hacked by super hackers with amazing knowledge on computer systems and can break encryption by staring at jumbled code like John Forbes Nash Jr. in the movie, A Beautiful Mind. It may be … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, hackers, Security Awareness
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Data Breach Bills to Protect Consumers from Hackers and CyberCriminals
Last Tuesday, two new bipartisan senate bills was proposed to increase notification and create/enhance information sharing by Senators Mark Kirk (R) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D) where introduced to congress. The following is what was transcribed. By Mr. KIRK (for himself … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Data Breach Notification and Punishing CyberCriminals Act, Information Sharing Credit Act, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Senate Bill, U.S. Senators
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The World’s Most Famous Hacker: Kevin Mitnick
I got to meet Kevin at RSA and I got a signed copy of his book, with his business card, which is also a set of lock picks. Mitnick served five years in prison—four-and-a-half years’ pre-trial and eight months in solitary … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Carmelo, Kevin Mitnick, Meeting Hackers, rsa, World's Most Famous Hacker
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Five Habits to be Unhackable
By simply adopting these five habits of practically unhackable people, you too can have better security. Think before you click. 95% of hacks are the result of clicking bad links, so make sure to check that it’s the right URL and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, information security, Information Technology Security Awareness, privacy, Security Awareness
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Single and Vulnerable… By the Millions
Visitors and members of Match.com are vulnerable to plaintext sniffing from a man-in-the-middle attack. Their https, redirects to http then logins are passed in the clear. Completely readable to those on the same network. Read more here.
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Tagged 2015, man-in-the-middle, mitm, passwords, privacy
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ISIS Hackers or Incompetent Password Management?
11 television stations went off the air; websites and social media were defaced; and an internal IT outage for TV5 in Paris, France. The websites were taken over with pro-messages of the CyberCaliphate, the same group who either DDoS’ed or defaced … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercaliphate, DDoS, defacement, malware, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, TV5
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AT&T Data Breach = $25 Million Dollar Fine
AT&T data breaches exposed about 280,000 U.S. customers’ names and full or partial Social Security numbers. The breaches occurred at call centers used by AT&T in Mexico, Colombia, and the Philippines when employees accessed sensitive customer data without adequate authorization. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, AT&T, breach, call center, cell phones, compliance, cost of non-compliance, privacy, risk, risk analysis, Security Awareness
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