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Lessons of the Yahoo Data Breach


Posted December 15, 2016 in Data Breach, Compliance, Malware

On Wednesday, Yahoo announced that personal information from one billion user accounts, including names, addresses,...

Largest Data Theft Ever: One Billion Yahoo Accounts


Posted December 14, 2016 in Data Breach, Malware, Compliance

Yahoo dropped a bomb on its users and stockholders on Wednesday: More than one billion users’ accounts have been...

Microsoft Announces End of Support for 2017


Posted December 14, 2016 in Malware, Cloud Security, AI

Microsoft will be ending or scaling back support for dozens of products starting in 2017.  The list of products...

Obama Administration's Response to Russia's Eelction Meddling


Posted December 14, 2016 in Data Breach, Compliance, Cloud Security

The great irony of the 2016 US presidential election is that after all the talk from Donald Trump of it being rigged,...

34K Patient Records Hacked


Posted December 14, 2016 in Data Breach, Digital Forensics, Malware

Quest Diagnostics, a forensic clinical lab company, announced earlier this week that they had suffered a cyberattack...

Obama Orders Review of Election Hacking


Posted December 9, 2016 in Data Breach, Digital Forensics, Compliance

One of the big stories of the recent presidential election was the release of documents from cyberattacks that were...

Mirai is Taking Down the Internet


Posted December 9, 2016 in Malware, AI, Data Breach

Do you remember a few months ago when a bunch of major websites went down to a DDoS attack?  It was done with a...

Locky Ransomware Switches from Norse to Egyptian


Posted December 8, 2016 in Ransomware, Malware, Data Breach

Locky, a popular strain of ransomware, has used the names of Norse gods like Odin and Thor as their file extensions...