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Microsoft Loses Terabytes of Windows 10 Source Code

Both the NSA and CIA have been in the news way too many times recently when organizations like WikiLeaks and others released stolen software that the organizations would rather remain private.  In the case of the spy agencies, that software is their internally developed hacking tools. Now it is someone else’s turn. Microsoft has acknowledged […]

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Why Paying Ransomware May Not Be A Great Idea

You may recall that a hacking group called the Dark Overlord hacked into Larson Studios, a third party provider to Netflix and other studios.  They stole the unreleased copies of the whole season of Orange as well as about 36 other series and movies. Now we are beginning to hear the back story and it […]

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Cisco, Others Share Source Code With Russia

The universe is an interesting place. While the Senate and House, among others,  are trying to figure out how much damage Russia did during last year’s election cycle, Cisco and others are sharing their source code with the people who supposedly hacked us.  Seem strange? It is! Here is the story. For some countries, including […]

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Anthem Agrees To Pay $115 Million To Settle Lawsuits From Breach

Anthem Blue Cross, you likely remember, was one of the first “Blues” to admit that they had lost control of the data on their subscribers to the tune of around 79 million people.  After Anthem admitted that, a number of other insurance companies – both Blues and others – admitted that they, too, had been […]

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GOP Contractor Exposes Profiles of 198 Million Voters

In what has to be one of the largest disclosures of personal data ever, it appears that a Republican National Committee vendor exposed their collection of data on 198 million U.S. voters in the cloud for anyone to trip over. Unlike other cases where hackers broke in or used zero day exploits to compromise systems, […]

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Yet Another Outsourcer Hacked

Aptos, an outsource point of sale vendor for many businesses, announced that they were breached.  Sort of announced, but not really. The breach was active from February 2016 thru November 2016, but they didn’t notify their merchants until February of this year.  Now the vendors are slowly notifying their customers.  Potentially, customers are not going […]

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