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Data breach at LinkedIn
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2016-05-26
- Society, breach, break-in, data breach, database, hack, LinkedIn, passwords, stolen
Apparently, there was a serious data breach at LinkedIn and many customer records were stolen including “member email addresses, hashed passwords, and LinkedIn member IDs”. LinkedIn sent out a notification informing that the passwords were invalidated. What is interesting in the note is that they included a cryptic note that the break-in was “not new”. ...
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Sony 2014 network breach, the most interesting question remains unanswered
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-12-23
- Management, attack, bigger picture, breach, infiltration, information extraction, network, purpose of attack, question, security, Sony
The November 2014 breach of security at Sony Corporation remains the subject of conversation throughout the end of the year. Many interesting details have become known while even more remains hidden. Most claims and discussions only serve to create noise and diversion though. Take the recent discussion of the antivirus software, for example. Sony Corporation ...
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Visualization of world’s largest data breaches
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-11-11
- Management, biggest, breach, bubble, data, diagram, entertaining, interesting, losses, security, useful, visual, visualization, world
I stumbled upon a very interesting infographic that portrays some of the world’s biggest data breaches in a running bubble diagram. Entertaining and potentially useful in presentations Have a look.
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They never learn password security: Domino Pizza
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-06-18
- Management, breach, Domino Pizza, hash, MD5, password database, passwords, ransom, salt
France and Belgium Domino Pizza password database was stolen by the hackers of Rex Mundi. They require a 30,000 euro payment to avoid disclosure. Well, Domino Pizza went to police, so the 592,000 French and 58,000 Belgian customer records will be in the open tonight. What is interesting though? This is 2014. Do you know what ...
Read MoreSecurity Breach at Unique Vintage
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-09-27
- Management, breach, credit card, customer information, exposure, news, rules, security diligence, user information, web
There is news that women’s clothing website Unique Vintage has sent notifications to the customers that the site has been breached and the customer information was exposed. What is interesting is that the website is fully PCI compliant, i.e. it follows all rules for security set forth by the credit card industry. And still, it ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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