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10 Ways To Protect Your Home Security System Against Hacking

10 Ways To Protect Your Home Security System Against Hacking

Homeowners are often unaware that their home security system can be hacked. Unfortunately even the most complex security locks can be…
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Hype and heavy tails: A closer look at data breaches

Hype and heavy tails: A closer look at data breaches

Recent widely publicized data breaches have exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of people. Some reports point to…
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Ten best practices for securing the Internet of Things in your organization

Ten best practices for securing the Internet of Things in your orga...

One of the biggest challenges with the Internet of Things (IoT) is the security headache that comes with it. This issue is exacerbated in…
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New IoT security rules: Stop using default passwords and allow software updates

New IoT security rules: Stop using default passwords and allow soft...

Internet of Things (IoT) devices should never be equipped with universal default passwords, and any credentials or personal data within the…
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Password security: Tips for creating a better policy

Password security: Tips for creating a better policy

In recent years the received wisdom on passwords — that they need to be complex, lengthy, and changed frequently — has begun to be…
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Reddit hit by data breach after hackers hijack SMS login system

Reddit hit by data breach after hackers hijack SMS login system

We’re now more than halfway through 2018 and the number of data breaches is ramping up. This year has seen more third-party services being…
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Wake-up call: T-Mobile breach reportedly affects 2 million customers

Wake-up call: T-Mobile breach reportedly affects 2 million customers

Telecom giant T-Mobile has experienced what it describes as an “unauthorized access to certain information,” resulting in the potential…
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Cloud-based video creation service Animoto alerts California DOJ of possible data theft

Cloud-based video creation service Animoto alerts California DOJ of...

Cloud-based video creation service Animoto alerts California DOJ of possible data theft
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Australian teenager hacked Apple’s network multiple times, accessed 90GB worth of files — National

Australian teenager hacked Apple’s network multiple times, accessed...

Court documents reveal that a 16-year-old hacker from Australia allegedly broke into tech giant Apple’s computer systems and may have…
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Phishing attack on Augusta University Health leads to breach exposing info on 400K persons

Phishing attack on Augusta University Health leads to breach exposi...

Phishing attack on Augusta University Health leads to breach exposing info on 400K persons
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Wisconsin county clerk reportedly accused of local government breach affecting 250K-plus…

Wisconsin county clerk reportedly accused of local government breac...

Wisconsin county clerk reportedly accused of local government breach affecting 250K-plus individuals
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MongoDB database exposes more than 2 million Mexican patients

MongoDB database exposes more than 2 million Mexican patients

Health care information found residing on the exposed database was also indexed by the IoT search engine Shodan and could be viewed by…
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Third-party misconfiguration exposes TCM Bank consumer data

Third-party misconfiguration exposes TCM Bank consumer data

August 06, 2018
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Phishing attack compromised the data of 1.4 million UnityPoint Health patients | SC Media

Phishing attack compromised the data of 1.4 million UnityPoint Heal...

UnityPoint Health in Des Moines, Iowa, is warning patients of a data breach that could impact 1.4 million patients.
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Data breach at Blue Springs Family Care endangers patient records, enables ransomware attack | SC…

Data breach at Blue Springs Family Care endangers patient records, ...

Missouri-based health care provider Blue Springs Family Care has disclosed a ransomware attack resulting from a data breach that may have…
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How Health-Tech Wearables Come Along With Data Privacy Concern

How Health-Tech Wearables Come Along With Data Privacy Concern

Technology is acting as a boon to mankind with the way it’s changing things for the people and industry. Fitness enthusiasts are feeling…
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Canadian businesses aren’t guarding your private information as carefully as they should be

Canadian businesses aren’t guarding your private information as car...

Canadian companies still have a long way to go when it comes to understanding and implementing privacy laws, new government research…
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Ticketfly hacked: What to know about the online ticketing service’s data breach

Ticketfly hacked: What to know about the online ticketing service’s...

Concert ticket retailer Ticketfly has been offline since last week after a data breach leaked customer’s personal information and disrupted…
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What the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Data Leak Teaches us About Ethics And Privacy

What the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Data Leak Teaches us About Et...

Each day, millions of people log in to Facebook, which has become almost like a digital extension of our real, tangible selves. A social…
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The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Has People Quitting Facebook but Business Pages Are Untouched

The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Has People Quitting Facebook but Bu...

Facebook users are wishing they could hit the “dislike” button on Mark Zuckerberg after discovering their personal data was scraped by a…
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5 Takeaways for Entrepreneurs From Facebook’s User Privacy Mistakes

5 Takeaways for Entrepreneurs From Facebook’s User Privacy Mistakes

April 11, 2018 9 min read
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5 Data Security Mistakes You May be Already Making

5 Data Security Mistakes You May be Already Making

April 11, 2018 4 min read
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India’s Much-loved Facebook Did Not Care About Personal Data of 5.6 Lakh Users Being Leaked!

India’s Much-loved Facebook Did Not Care About Personal Data of 5.6...

It merely took one quiz app and 335 downloads to compromise data of more than 562,120 Indian Facebook users, which was sold to British data…
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No One Is Safe From the Data Breach Epidemic (Infographic)

No One Is Safe From the Data Breach Epidemic (Infographic)

From Equifax to Yahoo, hacks and data breaches are becoming a recurring part of our lives.
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Internet security 101: Six ways hackers can attack you and how to stay safe

Internet security 101: Six ways hackers can attack you and how to s...

By Ankush Johar
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