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Personal info of 1.1M customers stolen in CareFirst breach

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May

2015

CareFirst, a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, has announced that they have suffered a #breach in which the attackers gained access to one of their databases. “Evidence suggests the attackers could have potentially acquired member-created user names created by individuals to access CareFirst’s website, as well as members’ names, birth dates, email addresses and subscriber […]

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New protocol from Guardtime hopes to unseat RSA for authentication, digital signatures

21

May

2015

#data integrity vendor Guardtime hopes its newly announced protocol will replace RSA for the purposes of authentication and digital signatures, touting it as easier to manage and less vulnerable to hacking. Called BLT, the protocol name comes from the last initials of its inventors, Ahto Buldas, Risto Laanoja and Ahto Truu, just as RSA comes […]

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Hackers breached subsea cable operator Pacnet`s corporate IT network

20

May

2015

Global telecommunications service provider and fibre optic subsea cable operator Pacnet has suffered a breach: unknown hackers have gained access to its corporate IT network last month. It’s interesting to note that the compromise happened prior to Telstra, Australia’s largest telecom and media company, finalizing its acquisition of Pacnet on on 16 April 2015. Read […]

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