Hackers have stolen information on tens of millions of Anthem Inc. customers, in a massive data breach that ranks among the largest in corporate history. The information stolen from the insurance giant includes names, birthdays, medical IDs, social security numbers, street addresses, e-mail addresses and employment information, including income data.
How to Install Free, Effective Antivirus Software (for Beginners)
Anyone running a Windows computer knows how important it is to have good anti-virus software—but you don’t need to pay for good protection! If someone you know still doesn’t have anti-virus software running, here’s a quick guide you can send them to help them set it up – recommendations for quality free anti virus software.
Five key IT security trends for 2015
Here’s a look at five key IT security trends and solutions for 2015 as identified by Ian Kilpatrick, Chairman of Wick Hill Group.
1) Rise in security breaches
2) Cloud / Virtualization
3) Mobile and Wireless
4) Big Data
5) Visibility Reporting and Remediation systems
Read the full article at Net-Security.
Infographic: The state of enterprise security
This infographic by SysCloud features cyber security trends in the enterprise and showcases how data breaches in the enterprise can be prevented.
Infographic link:
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Russians hacked Sony? The saga continues…
A new whitepaper has been released by Taia Global which claims that Russian hackers “also breached Sony” and “those hackers still have access to Sony’s network.”
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Singapore Forms New Cyber Security Agency
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, to be established on April 1, will provide dedicated and centralized oversight of national cyber security functions.
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OAT – Oracle Auditing Tools For Database Security
Oracle Auditing Tools is a tool kit that could be used to audit security within Oracle database servers.
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Microsoft releases Sysmon 2.0
Sysmon is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log.
It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time.
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Hard-Coded FTP Credentials Found in Schneider Electric SCADA Gateway
The parade of easily exploitable, critical vulnerabilities in ICS software shows no signs of ending anytime soon, with the latest entrant being two flaws in Schneider Electric’s ETG3000 FactoryCast HMI Gateway that allow unauthenticated remote access to the device’s FTP server and configuration file.
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If You use these Passwords, You will get hacked
Have you heard of iDict? It’s a tool that hackers can use to get passwords via what’s called brute force attacks. It’s designed to crack into iCloud’s passwords, and supposedly it can circumvent Apple’s anti-brute force attack security.
Read the full article here.