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Dem österreichischen fraktionsfreien EU-Abgeordneten Martin Ehrenhauser wurde eine Liste zugspielt, die gehackte E-Mails von EU-Parlamentariern enthält. 
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Aufregung im EU-Parlament: Offenbar konnte sich ein Hacker Zugriff auf E-Mail-Konten und Telefonanschlüsse von Abgeordneten verschaffen. Politiker sind empört - die Sicherheitsprobleme seien lange bekannt.
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In what must rate as one of the worst password security breaches ever, it has been discovered that the names, addresses, dates of birth and *unencrypted* passwords of over 40 million online daters have been stolen by hackers.
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The developers of popular Internet forum software vBulletin have announced late on Friday that their network has been attacked and successfully breached, and that the hackers involved have accessed customer IDs and encrypted passwords on their systems.
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BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
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More than 11,000 patients and some employees of Coloradobased kidney care company DaVita are being alerted after an unencrypted laptop containing their personal data was stolen from a staffers vehicle.
How many victims? Approximately 11,500.
What type of personal information? Names, clinical diagnoses, insurance carrier names, claims payment data and dialysis treatment information. About 375 patients had their Social Security numbers stored on the laptop.
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Names, clinical diagnoses, insurance carrier names, claims payment data and dialysis treatment information.
About 375 patients had their Social Security numbers stored on the laptop.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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In the wake of a data breach at the Royal Veterinary College, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning organizations they must make sure that their data protection policies reflect how the modern workforce are using personal...
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced that the majority of data breaches in the first quarter of 2013 were due to carelessness in the way that the information was handled.
That's according to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) which says 175 out of 335 incidents it examined between April 1 and June 30 were due to personal data being “disclosed in error”.
Half of data breaches are due to people being careless with what they do with private information. How can we all help to reduce this problem?
===> Do we need better user education? <===
Gust MEES's insight:
Half of data breaches are due to people being careless with what they do with private information. How can we all help to reduce this problem?
===> Do we need better user education? <===
YES!!!
Learn more:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/ict-awareness-what-you-should-know/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/cyberhygiene-hygiene-for-ict-in-education-and-business/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
August 15, 2013 11:47 AM
Half of data breaches are due to people being careless with what they do with private information. How can we all help to reduce this problem?
===> Do we need better user education? <===
YES!!!
Learn more:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/ict-awareness-what-you-should-know/
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/cyberhygiene-hygiene-for-ict-in-education-and-business/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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Yet more passwords need changing, as America's prestigious Stanford University joins the long line of recent data breach victims. Although specific details remain scarce, an announcement from the u...
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Stanford University has announced that its computer Relevant Products/Servicessystem was hacked, and
===> officials are urging users of the schoolnetwork Relevant Products/Services to change their passwords. <===
School officials are working with law enforcement to determine specifics of the attack. They have yet to figure out how significant it was.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Stanford
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 26, 2013 12:01 PM
Stanford University has announced that its computer Relevant Products/Servicessystem was hacked, and
===> officials are urging users of the schoolnetwork Relevant Products/Services to change their passwords. <===
School officials are working with law enforcement to determine specifics of the attack. They have yet to figure out how significant it was.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Stanford
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Viber, and published information about its users.
The notorious Syrian Electronic Army has claimed credit for an attack against the free phonecall and texting app, which has seen Viber’s Support and Knowledgebase website commandeered by the hacking group, and private data about users published on the web.
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We hear about major data breaches and hacks all of the time, but it's hard to conceptualize what it really means.
===> This visualization will open your eyes. <===
Gust MEES's insight:
We hear about major data breaches and hacks all of the time, but it's hard to conceptualize what it really means.
===> This visualization will open your eyes. <===
Learn more:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/ict-awareness-what-you-should-know/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Web-Attacks
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 23, 2013 10:04 AM
We hear about major data breaches and hacks all of the time, but it's hard to conceptualize what it really means.
===> This visualization will open your eyes. <===
Learn more:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/ict-awareness-what-you-should-know/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Web-Attacks
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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Cupertino finally gives an explanation for the extended downtime of its developer website.
After a weekend of outage and mysterious password reset emails, Apple has revealed the cause of the extended downtime of its developer website.
===> "Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website," Apple said in an email sent to developers. <===
While Apple claimed that the site's information was encrypted, and thus unable to be accessed, the company could not rule out that developer names, mailing addresses, or email addresses were not accessed during the incident.
Via Gust MEES
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===> "Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website," Apple said in an email sent to developers. <===
While Apple claimed that the site's information was encrypted, and thus unable to be accessed, the company could not rule out that developer names, mailing addresses, or email addresses were not accessed during the incident.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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July 21, 2013 7:48 PM
===> "Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website," Apple said in an email sent to developers. <===
While Apple claimed that the site's information was encrypted, and thus unable to be accessed, the company could not rule out that developer names, mailing addresses, or email addresses were not accessed during the incident.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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July 21, 2013 7:50 PM
===> "Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website," Apple said in an email sent to developers. <===
While Apple claimed that the site's information was encrypted, and thus unable to be accessed, the company could not rule out that developer names, mailing addresses, or email addresses were not accessed during the incident.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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Apple says its developer site was targeted in an attack, and that any information that was taken was encrypted. The site remains down. Read this article by Josh Lowensohn on CNET News. Via Gust MEES
Gust MEES's insight:
Apple says its developer site was targeted in an attack, and that any information that was taken was encrypted.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 6:53 PM
Apple says its developer site was targeted in an attack, and that any information that was taken was encrypted.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 6:56 PM
Apple says its developer site was targeted in an attack, and that any information that was taken was encrypted.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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Horse racing website RacingPost.com has suffered a data breach as a result of which customer information has been compromised. According to a stateme...
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Roughly 15,000 students in Sachem School District in Long Island may have had personal data compromised when information was posted to a local online forum.
How many victims? Roughly 15,000.
What type of personal information? Posted on the forum was a list of 15,000 names with student ID numbers and school lunch designations, student records on 360 students who graduated Sachem High School East in 2008, and a report relating to approximately 130 students who attended Sachem High School North who were receiving instructional services in an alternate setting in the 2010-2011 year, the district confirmed.
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GitHub users should consider changing their account password to a more complex one and setting up 2-factor authentication in order to protec...
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Change YOUR PASSWORD asap!!!
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
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![What happens after a data breach? [Infographic] | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/mhk80ig_OIgh0szG8FDh-jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
High profile data breaches that expose customer information are in the news. This graphic shows how the thieves sell the info and make their money.
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About 860,000 members who post on the forums of popular Apple news website MacRumors are being asked to change their passwords after accounts were compromised in a hack. Via Gust MEES
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Adobe originally estimated that the breach affected around 2.9 million users. As it turns out the number is actually 38 million, with the information taken including Adobe IDs, encrypted passwords,...
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Q. Why not use a password manager that can generate hard-to-guess passwords for you, and secure them with one super-password?
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Stanford University has announced that its computer system was hacked and officials are urging users of the school network to change their passwords. A hacker who goes by the moniker Ag3nt47 has claimed responsibility.
Stanford University has announced that its computer system was hacked, and ===> officials are urging users of the schoolnetwork to change their passwords. <===
School officials are working with law enforcement to determine specifics of the attack. They have yet to figure out how significant it was.
Gust MEES's insight:
Stanford University has announced that its computer Relevant Products/Servicessystem was hacked, and
===> officials are urging users of the schoolnetwork Relevant Products/Services to change their passwords. <===
School officials are working with law enforcement to determine specifics of the attack. They have yet to figure out how significant it was.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Stanford
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 26, 2013 11:22 AM
Stanford University has announced that its computer Relevant Products/Servicessystem was hacked, and
===> officials are urging users of the schoolnetwork Relevant Products/Services to change their passwords. <===
School officials are working with law enforcement to determine specifics of the attack. They have yet to figure out how significant it was.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Universities
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Stanford
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
Hyphenet Inc.'s curator insight,
August 15, 2013 3:22 PM
Are these hackers students trying to get test information or do you think this is a more professional job?
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Syrian hackers loyal to president Bashar al-Assad claim to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of personal data from chat app Tango.
===> According to E Hacking News Tango was still using WordPress version 3.2.1, when the latest version is 3.5.2. <===
Tango, based in Mountain View, California, has amassed more than 120 million registered users of its free video and text messaging application since its launch in 2009.
The cross-platform app is available in 39 languages in more than 210 countries and allows users to play games and watch animations during calls, as well as edit photos and send e-cards.
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===> According to E Hacking News Tango was still using WordPress version 3.2.1, when the latest version is 3.5.2. <===
Tango, based in Mountain View, California, has amassed more than 120 million registered users of its free video and text messaging application since its launch in 2009.
The cross-platform app is available in 39 languages in more than 210 countries and allows users to play games and watch animations during calls, as well as edit photos and send e-cards.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
- http://www.scoop.it/t/wordpress-annotum-for-education-science-journal-publishing
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Apple's Dev Center went down on Thursday causing issues for developers around the world. The system remained down for three days and is still currently unavailable.
This brings up an interesting question regarding single points of failure in the mobile application distribution system. When one component goes down, or is breached in this case it affects the entire ecosystem.
===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
What is the point of hacking one person’s phone when there are entire app store infrastructures to target? Via Gust MEES
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===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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July 21, 2013 8:17 PM
===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 8:20 PM
===> We hear a lot about mobile apps and devices being hacked, however as I have stated before that is small potatoes when compared to the treasure trove of the back-end systems that power mobile applications and services. <===
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Vivalist's curator insight,
July 22, 2013 4:28 AM
going up the network, identify the bottle neck and get at it - pretty simple, but they probably had to sweat a little to do it.
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Apple's developer portal has been offline since the middle of last week. On Sunday, Apple explained the outage. Via Gust MEES
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July 21, 2013 7:02 PM
Apple says its developer site was targeted in an attack, and that any information that was taken was encrypted.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
Gust MEES's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 7:07 PM
Apple says its developer site was targeted in an attack, and that any information that was taken was encrypted.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
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![The Real Cost of a Data Breach [Infographic] | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/Espat5CD5d_J9piYxY45ZTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
