Blog Posts Tagged with "breach"
Nine Tips for Social Media Crisis Response
June 07, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
Not impressed with LinkedIn's social media crisis response? Whilst the draft NIST report SP 800-61 gives really good guidelines on fully and effectively communicating important information to the public, there is some mileage to be had by exploring the use of social media when tackling incident response...
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LinkedIn Fails Security Due Diligence
June 07, 2012 Added by:Marc Quibell
Poor security practices led to the password database ending up in Russia. We can also say that the best security practices were not applied to the security of our passwords: LinkedIn did not "salt their hash" and therefore the passwords were much more vulnerable to simple brute force attacks...
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How and Why to Alert Your Employees of the LinkedIn Breach
June 07, 2012 Added by:Jason Clark
Cyber security teams should send out an employee alert explaining why LinkedIn passwords need to be changed and best practices for doing so. You may not have direct IT control over individual LinkedIn accounts, but your communication may alleviate social engineering attacks on employees and your network...
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Should You Be Worried About the LinkedIn Breach?
June 06, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
People who rely on LinkedIn for professional networking keep a wealth of information stored on their profile pages. With news of a possible data breach exposing 6.5 million user passwords, LinkedIn users need to take steps to protect their personal data. Here are five tips we recommend you follow...
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LinkedIn Hacked: Change Your Password
June 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Reports indicate that as many as 6.4 million passwords have been compromised. Though the passwords are in encrypted form, reports indicate that they are being cracked at a rapid rate, with somewhere near 300,000 passwords already revealed, putting those LinkedIn members' accounts at risk...
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NASA Denies Iranian Hacker's SSL Certificate Breach Claims
May 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
NASA has officially denied that the agency's systems were breached by the Iranian hacker group the "Cyber Warriors Team," which claimed to have compromised a digital SSL certificate after having coded an HTTPS protocol scanner to find weaknesses in the agency's website...
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Anonymous Claims Department of Justice Hack, Data Dump
May 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The department is looking into the unauthorized access of a website server operated by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that contained data from their public website. The... website has remained operational throughout this time. The department’s main website... was not affected..."
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Twitter Hack! Five Ways to Avoid Being a Victim of Phishing
May 12, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Twitter is downplaying a security breach that exposed tens of thousands of user emails and passwords. The compromised Twitter accounts could have been the result of phishing attacks. Whenever you read about such breaches, it is always a good idea to change your password...
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Space Agencies Confirm Network Intrusions
May 10, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“NASA security officials detected an intrusion into the site on April 20... The agency takes the issue of IT security very seriously and at no point was sensitive or controlled information compromised. NASA has made significant progress to better protect the agency’s IT systems..."
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Hackers Post Thousands of Twitter Account Logins
May 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Analysis of the data dump indicates that of the fifty-five thousand sets of account logins, around twenty-thousand were duplicates, and a large percentage were associated with accounts that were already suspended for violations of terms of service...
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Hacktivists Claim Government and Military Systems Breach
May 03, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A new hacktivist group claims to have breached the systems of multiple government, military and private organizations. The hackers posted screenshots of their intrusions to support their claims, as well as posting what is characterized as military files for access on MediaFire...
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VMware Confirms Older Hypervisor Source Code Exposed
April 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Our security team became aware of the public posting of a single file from the VMware ESX source code and the possibility that more files may be posted in the future. The posted code and associated commentary dates to the 2003 to 2004 timeframe..."
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Nissan Confirms Cyber Attack and Network Breach
April 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We have detected an intrusion into our company's global information systems network... we believe that our systems are secure and that no customer, employee or program data has been compromised. However, we believe that user IDs and hashed passwords were transmitted..."
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Four Steps to Follow when Your Credit Card is Compromised
April 23, 2012 Added by:Christopher Burgess
Certification of compliance demonstrates that at that given point of time the entity was in adherence to the PCI standards. The threat landscape is dynamic and ever changing requiring those entrusted with our data to take steps beyond compliance to protect that data...
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Update on the Visa - MasterCard - GPN Breach
April 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Global Payments' announced that Track 2 data was stolen, which is used by the bank. Track 1 data generally refers to the information reported on the front of a bank card. So if this information was stolen along with that contained in Track 2, it is possible to clone a card...
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Visa and MasterCard Alert Banks of Massive Processor Breach
March 30, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Visa Inc. is aware of a potential data compromise incident at a third party entity... Visa has provided payment card issuers with the affected account numbers so they can take steps to protect consumers through independent fraud monitoring and, if needed, reissuing cards..."
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