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SAP Bug Still Exposing Companies Six Years After Being Patched!
We are constantly reminded about keeping our software up to date, from something like Word to the auto-updates of Windows 10. Amongst all the features and tweaks we often get with these updates, the first and foremost reason for fixes and updates is often security, with each update fixing another problem…
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Data Breach Exposes Nearly 800,000 Kiddicare Account Details
When it comes to data leaks there have been two big ones in recent years that have caught people’s eyes. First came TalkTalk and the data breach that some accuse them of trying to cover up, the next was VTech. The VTech hack, while a smaller name in the global…
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Hacked Email Account Details Could Be Fake
When it was revealed that over 720 email accounts were being sold online for less than $1, people became concerned as the accounts ranged from Hotmail and Yahoo accounts to those provided by Russian email service Mail.ru. It now would appear that those email account details could be fake. The revelation that…
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Hacker Selling Over 270 Million Compromised Email Accounts
People rely on online emails for everything from business needs to keeping up with their everyday lives. So when it turns out that a hacker is selling 273.3 million email accounts online, people are naturally worried. The millions of accounts were found online by security expert Alex Holden of Hold…
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Amazon Recommends Users Change Their Passwords
Who doesn’t have an Amazon account? If you do it may be worth changing your password as Amazon recommends users take the precaution after it discovered that some of their Amazon accounts could be found online. Amazon discovered the leaked passwords were contained within a password list online, and while…
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Executives Feel Like Cyber-Security is Just an IT Problem
Cyber-security is a big issue, with people and companies finding out the hard way that their security is exposed when it turns up online for sale or they receive phone calls advertising features with details they never hand out. With big companies like TalkTalk and even the government being victims of hacks, people…
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Suspect In The UK Told To Decrypt His Devices For The US
Apple vs the FBI may be over but that doesn’t mean the question about decryption and the law is over. In the most recent case to catch our ears a suspect from the UK being asked to decrypt his devices for the US authorities. Lauri Love is a British computer…
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Valve Found Guilty of Breaking Australian Consumer Law
Valve is known for creating the popular digital sales platform Steam, which does everything hardware to regular sales on video games. One thing they’ve been keen to improve on for a while has been their refund policy, something which saw the original policy replaced with one that could offer full refunds to people who…
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Verizon Enterprise Breach Leads to 1.5 Million Customers Records Up For Sale
It’s not been a good year for Verizon. Earlier this month we reported on the fact that the company had been fined by the FCC for “supercookie” tracking, and now it would seem that Verizon Enterprise has been breached resulting in 1.5 million customer records being put up for sale.…
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Hackers Leave Advice for Breached Security Company
Security firm Staminus servers have been taken offline today, following a supposedly successful cyber-attack on their network. The Newport Beach, California-based hosting and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection company went down at 8 am EST on Thursday, with the company communicating details of the event via Twitter citing it as…
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Hacker Who Leaked Bush’s Emails To Be Extradited
In this day and age, security and technology are constantly at odds. With the ability to chat with people all over the world with the press of a button, sometimes storing that information can be troublesome. A year and a half ago the U.S. found this out when it was…
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Apple’s Official Response To The FBI Is Here!
In the last few weeks, the news has been awash with a single topic when it comes to technology, Security. Brought to life by a judge ordering Apple to unlock an iPhone, a move which has split America almost down the middle. The time has finally come and you can…
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Hacker Releases 17.8GB of Data From Turkish Police Server
A hacker going by the online alias ROR[RG] has released a large amount of data that belonged to a Turkish National Police database and is thought to contain large amounts of sensitive private information. ROR[RG] is aligned with the Anonymous hacktivist group and has leaked the data that was supposedly stolen from Turkish…
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Juniper Networks Finds ‘Unauthorised’ Code in Its Software
Cyber security and the integrity of applications are essential for consumers to have confidence their details will be kept safe and not intercepted by a third-party. Well known internet hardware company Juniper networks have issued a warning concerning a discovery it has made within its firewall software, which could have…
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Twitter Users Hit by State-Sponsored Attackers
On Friday, a number of Twitter users received a notification from the social networking platform, explaining that their accounts had been the target of state-sponsored actors. Unsurprisingly, the supposed targets of these attacks were mass surveillance researchers and security professionals. The incident was surprising for users of Twitter, as until…
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