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Augmented reality’s peculiar psychological impact
By now, you may have noticed an influx of people of all ages walking around parks and public spaces with their cell phones in hand, wandering in strange circles before swiping a few times on the screen and exclaiming “Caught it!” Maybe you’ve even seen groups of people huddled around a single spot with their ...
Datadog gets bit by hackers
Datadog, Inc. may be a fine Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, but it too needs a guard dog. A recent hack has resulted in a data breach of the Datadog platform, stealing login credentials for users of all sizes. According to NakedSecurity, the breach has impacted a few of the production servers, and at least one user ...
Game controller provider gets played as hacker steals payment data
KontrolFreek, LLC., a provider of video game gear and accessories, may have less control than it had hoped, as a data breach stole the payment card information from multiple customers. Anyone who purchased gaming gear from them between October 2015 and April 2016 is at risk, and should expect notification soon. According to the Notice ...
Triple healthcare hack puts patient data for sale on the darknet
Healthcare is a common target for hackers looking to make a profit off of the personal information of others. After all, hospitals and healthcare organizations store large amounts of data, often including sensitive information and insurance records, which cyber criminals can utilize in any number of ways. As such, it comes as little surprise to ...
Hackers steal and leak US military personnel data
When your job involves defending the nation, you want your computer networks to be just as secure. However, following a data breach of US military personnel info, it seems some hackers have made it through their security, and have leaked the information on the dark web. A leaked database, containing information on almost 2,500 US ...
New York school district suffers a hack and data breach
Sometimes the important lessons about security are not learned in schools, but by schools. In this week’s course on cyber security, Holley Central School District itself has been schooled, after a cyber attack leaked the data of thousands employees, old and new alike. According to cloud security company BatBlue Networks, a secretary at the New ...
Millions of voter records leaked on Google
Did you know that there are database records stored on Google? Anyone who wasn’t aware before certainly knows now, as a voter list containing around 154 million records was exposed, thanks to a small misconfiguration. Security researched Chris Vickery of MacKeeper discovered the database leak, as The Daily Dot reports, which was exposed due to ...
Acer data breach loses customer credit cards
Multinational hardware and electronics corporation, Acer Service Corporation, has suffered a data breach that puts a good amount of customer information at risk. An intruder took advantage of a vulnerability in the third-party payment processing system, and may have accessed customer payment information as a result. While Acer does not know how many customers may ...
A stolen computer puts Multi-Color employees at risk
Another day, another data breach, as the firm Multi-Color Global Label Solutions suffers a break-in through a third party affiliate. Notably, this breach wasn’t done through hacking or cyber theft, but rather started with physical theft of property. Earlier this year, a law firm that represents Multi-Color was broken into. Among the stolen items was ...
Bad catch: Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department suffers data breach
A hacker went hunting and caught a big one, as a data breach at the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife (FWD) has resulted in compromised personal information. Anyone who purchased hunting or fishing licenses online in 2015 could be at risk, and is advised to keep an eye on their financial reports. While the ...
