Data Breach

Bonobos men's clothing store has suffered a massive data breach exposing millions of customers' personal information after a cloud backup was downloaded by a threat actor. The corporate systems were not breached by the attacker.

Palo Alto Networks used an AI tool to detect someone attempting to download malware on one of its servers, without realizing the scale of the hack.

Teespring, a Silicon Valley e-commerce site that lets people create and sell customized T-shirts, sweaters, and other apparel, is having a heck of a month.

Microsoft has updated its Edge browser for Mac with several new features, bringing "sleeping tabs," a password generator and monitor, new...

Oh, no, Bonobos!

The latest update for Edge Chromium, version 88, is finally rolling out. This version adds many new features to the Windows and macOS versions of the browser, like new password security tools, an updated look, and several quality-of-life enhancements. It's a lot, so we'll go over everything new in Edge 88 and show you how to use it.

UK schools have recently found out that a number of government-given laptops had included malware that linked to Russian servers.

Join our guests Jake Nix, vCISO, and Jeff Noolas, President and CEO at JAMIS Software Corporation, for a discussion on how federal contractors can go about ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and overall security of their data.

Experts found the reason why victims are still doing paying them.

Homomorphic encryption entails the big advantage that computations can be directly performed on encrypted data. This could be a very promising way of processing sensitive and confidential information remotely on the cloud for example. Within a university project we implement Conway's Game of Life us

Tenable's Security Response Team takes a look back at the major vulnerability and cybersecurity news of 2020 to develop insight and guidance for defenders.

"Sales reports, financial information, [and] game development documents" also got out.

The release of the 2020 ITRC Data Breach Report and launch of the ITRC's data breach tracking tool supports the Data Privacy Day 2021 initiative to help build trust among consumers and promote transparency around data collection practices.

User data may have been accessed by an intruder

The shutdown of controversial social media site Parler, and the publication of huge amounts of user data scraped by ethical hackers, is giving cyber crime experts cause for concern

High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of person

WASHINGTON — American businesses and government agencies could be spending upward of $100 billion over many months to contain and fix the damage from the Russian hack against the SolarWinds software used by so many Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government departments. "Unlike good wine, this case continues to get

Parler has been hit by a massive data scrape. Security researchers collected swaths of user data before the network went dark Monday morning.

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