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Disqus, Forrester Research suffer data breach

09

Oct

2017

Popular blog comment hosting service Disqus and market research company Forrester Research announced late on Friday that they’ve suffered a breach. While the latter was apparently limited to content made available to Forrester clients through Forrester.com, the former resulted in the theft of account data for some 17.5 million users. “There is no evidence that […]

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FIN7 Hackers Use LNK Embedded Objects in Fileless Attacks

28

Sep

2017

The infamous FIN7 hacking group has been distributing malware through a LNK file embedded in a Word document via the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology, Cisco Talos security researchers say. FIN7, also known as Anunak, or Carbanak, is a financially motivated group that has been highly active since the beginning of this year. While […]

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IDG Contributor Network: Making a bad situation worse: how Equifax mishandled the breach

26

Sep

2017

There have been some very high-profile data breaches in the last few years, but the latest disaster to hit the headlines concerns one of the largest credit bureaus in the United States. It’s estimated that the Equifax data breach exposed 143 million consumers, with cybercriminals accessing birth dates, addresses, and even Social Security, credit card […]

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