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Data Breach: 4 Steps to Mitigate Insider Threats

Cybersecurity strategies traditionally secure the company network against outsider interference. However, as a new wave of data protection laws swept the globe, organizations became legally liable for the protection of sensitive data not only from external threats, but also internal ones. According to the Cost of a Data Breach...

5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, April 15, 2021

Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into one single cup of coffee. These are the things you need to know before you step foot out of your door (or in front of a webcam) and into the real world this morning. So sit back,...

Why the Video Game Industry is Susceptible to Hacks (and How to Protect Yourself)

Gaming platforms and forums represent a high level of risk, even though these accounts often do not provide direct access to sensitive data such as bank accounts, credit cards, or social security numbers.

Republicans Admit to Being Hacked During 2018 Election Cycle

The Republican National Congressional Committee is claiming it suffered a hack which exposed thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder.

Yahoo hacks: now more than one billion accounts compromised [Updated]

Updated 12/15/2016, 10:41 a.m. Yahoo recently disclosed yet another breach to its database of users. Already reeling from the August 2013 breach that exposed around 500 million accounts, Yahoo is now struggling with an even larger one that they are saying is "separate and distinct" from the earlier hack. Verizon and Yahoo have been...

Dropbox hack compromises 68 million accounts

In June, we wrote about the largest social media data breaches to date. And now, just a few short months later, there's a new site that we could add to the list. Dropbox, the popular cloud storage site, has been hacked. Why or by whom, no one knows. But what we do know is that approximately 68 million usernames and passwords -- which...