The Pew Research Center has found that over half of American citizens have been victims of data breaches in recent years. The online security survey, released on 26 January this year, revealed that 64% of adults in the US have either reported or were notified of a data breach that had impacted their personal data. … More Over half of US citizens ‘have experienced a data breach’
Internet giant Yahoo has confirmed it is to be investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with two major data breaches discovered at the company last year. In a November 2016 quarterly filing, the company said it was “cooperating with federal, state and foreign” agencies, including the SEC, as first revealed … More Yahoo faces SEC probe into its two record-breaking data breaches
2016 has been a challenging year for politics, public sanity and celebrity longevity, but also, for individuals and companies, a testing time in terms of online security. Pitted against increasingly sophisticated and targeted cybercriminals, it’s not been easy going, as these notable security incidents from the past 12 months reveal. 1. Dyn DDoS attack In … More The 10 biggest security incidents of 2016
Last night, Yahoo announced that yet another data breach has happened involving more than one billion of its user accounts. As breaches seem to be happening more and more these days we can be forgiven for allowing data breach news to fall on deaf ears but we need to get this in perspective … This … More Yahoo data breach: What you can do
Every day we seem to hear about new data breaches. Every day users are warned that their personal information may have been exposed, that they should reset their passwords, and tighten their security measures to prevent hackers from exploiting their details. Today the concern is related to one of the world’s biggest video platforms. Dailymotion, … More Dailymotion hacked, millions of user accounts exposed
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