Networks
The latest technologies and best practices to secure local, virtual, cloud, and hybrid networks.
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3 Tools for Enforcing Password Policies
Recent corporate security breaches have taught us something important: The average computer user is spectacularly bad at choosing good passwords. The most popular passwords turn out to be simple, easy-to-remember ones, like “password,” “123456,” “monkey” and “iloveyou,” all of which provide little security. If you can remember your password, then it is probably not secure.…
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Cyber Insurance: 6 Facts You Should Know
Insuring against cyber threats is not exactly a new concept, but most companies — two out of every three — don’t have cyber insurance policies. Despite recent headlines about major security breaches, growth in the cyber insurance market may actually be slowing. According to New York-based brokerage firm Marsh LLC, the number of cyber insurance…
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Bitcoin Exchange Poloniex Hacked
Poloniex, a cryptocurrency exchange for Bitcoin and dozens of other cryptocurrencies, recently announced that about 12.3 percent of its Bitcoin holdings were stolen by a hacker (h/t E Hacking News). “The hacker found a vulnerability in the code that takes withdrawals. … The hacker discovered that if you place several withdrawals all in practically the…
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Lost USB Drive Exposes Hong Kong Hospital Patients’ Data
Computerworld Hong Kong reports that a pharmacy staff member at Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) lost a USB drive containing 92 patients’ personal data on February 18, 2014, but didn’t report the loss to management until three days later, on the 21st (h/t PHIprivacy.net). The drive was unencrypted, and didn’t have password protection in…
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Bank of the West Acknowledges Data Breach
Bank of the West recently began notifying an undisclosed number of former job applicants that the information they had provided in an online job application may have been accessed by hackers. “On December 19, 2013 we discovered that a retired Internet application that provided job listings and accepted applications for positions at the Bank had…
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Barclays Bank Breach Exposes 27,000 Customers’ Personal Data
The Mail on Sunday reports that an anonymous whistleblower says up to 27,000 confidential customer files have been stolen from Barclays Bank and sold to rogue traders (h/t Infosecurity). “This is the worst [leak] I’ve come across by far,” the former commodity broker told the Mail. “But this illegal trade is going on all the…
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Nielsen Company Acknowledges Data Breach
The Nielsen Company recently began notifying an undisclosed number of employees that their personal information may have been exposed when an employee mistakenly shared a file containing the data by e-mail. “We recently discovered that on December 1, 2013, a Nielsen Audio Human Resources employee accidentally e-mailed a file listing Social Security numbers and names…
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Home Depot Employees Arrested for Insider Breach
WSB-TV reports that three Home Depot human resources employees — Claudette Grimes, Lakisha Grimes and Paulette Shorter — have been arrested for allegedly accessing employees’ confidential information and using it to apply for and open fraudulent credit cards (h/t DataBreaches.net). “Our corporate security, IT security and legal teams quickly investigated the matter and notified law…
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Review: GreenSQL Database Security
There are many devices and services that are under constant attack in today’s business environments. Popular vectors for attack include browsers and smartphones, but the goal of an attack is not the device, service or application. Attackers exploit weaknesses in devices and services in order to get to important business information which is stored in…
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EasyDraft Data Breach Exposes Bright Horizons Customers’ Financial Data
EasyDraft, which processes payments for Bright Horizons Family Solutions, recently began notifying an undisclosed number of current and former Bright Horizons customers that their names, bank routing numbers and bank account numbers were mistakenly made available online (h/t DataBreaches.net). According to the notification letter [PDF], Bright Horizons learned on January 8, 2014 that one of…
