Hold Security Reports A Russian Crime Ring Has Stolen Over a Billion Internet Passwords – Has Your IT Been Compromised?

Hold Security Reports A Russian Crime Ring Has Stolen Over a Billion Internet Passwords – Has Your IT Been Compromised?

Hold Security, a firm based in Milwaukee, has reported to the New York Times that they’ve discovered a massive theft of confidential data gathered from more than 420,000 websites, ranging from large household names to small business sites. Taking into account overlap from site to site, they’ve estimated that the Russian crime ring responsible has...

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Duleep Pillai
August 6, 2014
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Hold Security Reports A Russian Crime Ring Has Stolen Over a Billion Internet Passwords – Has Your IT Been Compromised?

Should You Use a Temporary Credit Card for Online Transactions?

After the recent series of scandals in the United States involving credit card data theft, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned retailers about a type of malicious software attacking point-of-sale (POS) systems, called “Backoff.” It is said that this virus is undetectable by most anti-virus software. During the wake of these scandals, recent popularity...

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Duleep Pillai
August 6, 2014
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Hold Security Reports A Russian Crime Ring Has Stolen Over a Billion Internet Passwords – Has Your IT Been Compromised?

5 Tips to Save you From a Printing Disaster

We’ve all been there, your printer runs out of ink when you need it the most causing you to resort to wacky colours for your professional document, or forcing you to take a drive to the nearest public printers only to find you forgot the ten cents you needed to print. You’re frantic, you’re running...

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Duleep Pillai
August 4, 2014
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Hold Security Reports A Russian Crime Ring Has Stolen Over a Billion Internet Passwords – Has Your IT Been Compromised?

Lessons to Take From the IRS Email Disappearance Scandal

Conflicts in the IRS began May of 2013. Ex-IRS tax-exempt chief Lois Lerner felt the agency was unjustly scrutinizing applicants seeking tax breaks. Lerner stepped down, and is now in the center of a current scandal regarding a lost two years worth of emails. In June, the IRS told Congress that two years’ worth of...

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Duleep Pillai
August 1, 2014
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