UniComData Blogs

NOTE: This is the largest of the 15 breaches in the education sector year-to-date, comprising the lion’s share of the 23,930 records exposed. And these are only breaches that have been reported to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, commonly thought to be a mere fraction of total breaches that have actually occurred in the U.S.
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Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog has been stolen by internet hackers Sony Music suffered its second major security breach in a year, with thieves targeting songs and unreleased material by the superstar singer. It’s alleged they downloaded more than 50,000 music files worth $253 million in the biggest ever cyberattack on a music company.
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From SECNAP Alerts:
Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions that could cause it to catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer to commit identity theft, or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure?
It’s not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
101Domain.com appeared to suffer a security breach that “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.”
According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has about 10,000 domain names under management.
 
A message by 101Domain.com to its customers explains: “We need to make you aware of a security breach that may potentially have [...]

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AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telephone company, has notified customers of an effort by hackers to collect online account information. “We recently detected an organized and systematic attempt to obtain information on a number of AT&T customer accounts, including yours,” AT&T said in an email to customers. “We do not believe that the perpetrators of [...]

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PayPal’s name and reputation are being abused by cybercriminals in the latest phishing expedition, one that’s ultimately designed to access user bank accounts.  The new scam masks itself as a notification coming from the PayPal Account Review Team, informing the customer about a credit card issue.  The message alerts potential victims that a certain credit [...]

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Facebook was recently invaded by a robot army, created by four researchers, to demonstrate the ease with which online social networks can be maliciously exploited by the unscrupulous. With a horde of 102 bogus Facebook friends, researchers at the University of British Columbia showed that they could harvest personal information about members that is not [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
Hackers reportedly used an off-the-shelf computer attack created in China to compromise the computers of at least 48 companies, including in the chemical and defense industries — an attack described as being similar to the notorious Stuxnet virus, if not as severe.
The goal of the attacks, reported Monday by security software company Symantec, [...]

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Public Wi-Fi is all well and good, but its very nature makes it easy to exploit and allow hackers access into your system – unless you have the proper security protocols in place.
These days, Wi-Fi is everywhere. Airports, coffee shops, train and bus stations, malls – almost every public place you can think offers Wi-Fi [...]

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From SECNAP Alerts:
A mass-injection attack similar to the highly publicized LizaMoon attacks this past spring has infected more than 1 million ASP.NET Web pages, researchers said today. According to database security experts, the SQL injection technique used in this attack depends on the same sloppy misconfiguration of website servers and back-end databases that led to [...]

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