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Security News for the Week Ending June 26, 2020

Anonymous Gonna Rise Again. Question Mark? A hacker or hackers claiming to be affiliated the non-group Anonymous has posted a million documents coming from over 200 police departments and other law enforcement agencies. While the documents do no purport to show illegal activities, they are likely both embarrassing and also confidential. The fact that the […]

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Weekly Security News for the Week Ending December 20, 2019

Retailer LightInTheBox Exposes 1.6 Billion Customer Records The challenge with today’s big data world is that the breaches are enormous.  LightInTheBox left customer transaction data exposed due to, apparently, a server misconfiguration.   They effectively breached themselves.  The data was a web server log with dates from Aug  9 to Oct 11 of this year.   […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 11, 2019

Medical Practice Closes After Ransomware Attack Wood Ranch Medical is closing their doors permanently after a ransomware attack.  The attackers not only encrypted the practice’s data, but also its backups. In April 2019, the Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Battle Creek also closed after a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks are just one reason why […]

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Over 90 Percent of IoT Data Transactions Are Not Encrypted

According to a report released by  cloud security vendor Zscaler, 91% of the traffic that they saw coming through their network security devices from IoT “things” was NOT encrypted. This is on enterprise networks where one might think that security is more important, so maybe the number is even higher on home networks, although it […]

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