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A regular day. You've taken care of business, used some free services, gotten some good deals and revealed all kinds of information about yourself. So at the end of the day, the question is, Who has your information and where...
Since 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services has received reports that hundreds of thousands of patients have been affected by breaches at hospitals across Florida. Miami resident Joseph Szot says he was victim. South FL NBC 6's Myriam...
I'd like to tell you about a new product that I recently had an opportunity to try. Known as the "FixMeStick", it's an antivirus and anti-malware tool that comes preinstalled on a USB flash drive. Unlike some other antivirus solutions,...
Another data breach is in the news, this one from the online gaming site Gamigo. Approximately 8 million email accounts and user passwords have been leaked recently, dwarfing the size of breaches like the recent Yahoo! Voices breach. This story...
Smaller businesses have become bigger targets for cybercriminals because the bad guys know that they have fewer defense resources than large enterprises. If cybercriminals can breach a small business and steal credentials (banking accounts, email access, etc.) they can use...
You've probably heard about the recent Yahoo data breach, in which upwards of 450,000 users had their email addresses and passwords stolen and leaked for hackers and identity thieves to do their worst with. It took Yahoo a few days...
The security breach at LinkedIn has been big news recently. It's understandable, since the breach exposed the passwords of potentially millions of professionals to hackers; if their accounts were accessed, this could lead to a significant amount of personal information...
Most of the time, when I talk about data breaches I'm telling you about some large company that's had customer information stolen or a hospital that has had patient records and insurance claim numbers compromised. I've said before that anyone...
When news broke of a data breach within the network of the payment processor Global Payments, the company put a lot of effort into letting the public know that it had discovered the breach itself that it was taking steps...
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