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Scammers Offer to Sell Data Stolen in Equifax Hack

15

Sep

2017

While a large amount of information stolen in the recent Equifax hack might be up for sale somewhere on the dark web, scammers have also set up websites offering the data from the U.S. credit reporting agency. Equifax alerted customers on September 7 that hackers had accessed its systems between mid-May and late July. The […]

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IDG Contributor Network: Another day, another case of Grand Theft Data. Can a verified ID save the day?

13

Sep

2017

They say that the more you witness something, the more normal it becomes. I opened Twitter last week to see yet another mega-hack from hell in the form of the Equifax breach; the breach exposing around 143 million US customer accounts and quite likely a further 44 million UK ones too. The Equifax breach is […]

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What is Heartbleed? A coding error that caused a security crisis

13

Sep

2017

Heartbleed is a vulnerability that came to light in April of 2014; it allowed attackers unprecedented access to sensitive information, and it was present on thousands of web servers, including those running major sites like Yahoo. Heartbleed was caused by a flaw in OpenSSL, an open source code library that implemented the Transport Layer Security […]

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Scammers Offer to Sell Data Stolen in Equifax Hack

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What is Heartbleed? A coding error that caused a security crisis

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