Image copyright Getty Images Twitter has emailed its business clients to tell them that personal information may have been compromised. Unbeknownst to users, billing information of some clients was stored in the browser’s cache, it said. In an email to its clients, Twitter said it was “possible” others could have accessed personal information. The personal […]
Serina Fignole – May 29, 2018 By now you’ve most likely heard of the Cambridge Analytica data breach from Facebook. For those who haven’t, it was determined that since 2014 the political consulting firm collected personally identifiable information from about 87 million Facebook users, gained through Facebook’s “This Is Your Digital Life” app. The data was
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This collection of social media marketing and new hire announcements is a compilation of the past week’s briefs from our daily Marketing Land newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get more news like this delivered to your inbox every morning. Facebook confirms Groups data breach caused by API bug. The company said that private Groups
TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay The number of enterprise data breaches has grown exponentially. However, small businesses still fail to pay attention to it. There are many ways businesses can prevent security breaches, but owners of small companies tend to ignore it because they don’t believe that it could happen to them. Small businesses also fail to
A whistleblower complaint about a potentially coercive phone call President Donald Trump had in July with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky led to a congressional hearing and full-on impeachment inquiry this week. At one point in the call, Trump brought up the cybersecurity incident response firm Crowdstrike, indicating that he still doesn’t believe the US intelligence
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How the hackers lair could look FOOD DELIVERY GIANT DoorDash has become the latest victim of the hackers’ glare, revealing that up to five million US customer records have been breached. For Blighty readers, this would be a bit like if Just-Eat was clobbered, but having said that, we must emphasise that this hasn’t happened. Your
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News on two botnets, advice for data breach victims and defend your Defender Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday September 20th, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cyber security for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast click on the arrow below: A botnet is a network of compromised Internet-connected devices that spreads malware by trying
The main square in Quito, the capital of Ecuador (Avalon/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Almost the entire population of Ecuador has had their personal information made public through a data breach. More than 20 million people (including an estimated 7 million children) have had their data exposed in the leak, which was uncovered by security firm
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A Calgary doctor uses his personal Gmail account to communicate sensitive personal health information, does not protect his account, and whammo: 7,000 of his patients now have their private information circulating on the Intertubes. What are the takeaways? First, never use your personal email to communicate business sensitive information. In this case, the doctor had
Hostinger, one of the fine web hosting platform for average customers, has reported unauthorized access into one of their servers in the midnight of 23rd August 2019. This incident was reported over their blog and immediately sent password reset links to their millions of clients via registered email addresses. Hostinger Data Breach The breach explained:
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