Equifax, the credit scoring company that suffered a data breach that impacted as many as 143 million Americans, is blaming a vendor software flaw in its online databases. According to a news report in the The New York Post, hackers were able to steal customers’...
Millions of Time Warner’s My TWC app users’ records were residing on a Amazon server in August that was not secure, according to news from Reuters. According to the report, which cited Kromtech Security Center, greater than four million records of users of the Time Warner...
IBM’s project to explore blockchain technology to track food supply and improve safety has some new big-name partners, including Nestle, Unilever and Tyson Foods among others. In a press release Tuesday (Aug. 22) IBM announced the blockchain collaboration, saying the new partners are aimed at...
boulCrime doesn’t pay. It’s a lesson that kids learn from their parents at an early age. And it’s a concept that an entire comic book series was built around in the 1940s and ’50s – called, appropriately enough – Crime Does Not Pay. Its narrator,...
Police have discovered a new credit card skimmer that connects to the inside of a gas station pump and is able to send stolen data via SMS. According to Tech Crunch, thieves tear apart cheap phones and send credit card information to their location instantly...
Eaze, the Series B-stage cannabis delivery startup with more than $24 million in venture funding, has experienced a security incident. According to Tech Crunch, an anonymous source tipped off Crunchbase News about the breach, where some of the site’s user data may have been stolen...
Girl Scouts will soon get the chance to earn their first ever cyber security badges. The Huffington Post reports that Girl Scouts can earn the first of 18 cyber security Girl Scout badges beginning in September 2018. The program will reach as many as 1.8 million Girl...
FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is the best in the world (yep, even better than Google’s) and is being used for public safety, law enforcement and...
Buckle Inc. reported Friday, June 16, that it had discovered malware on certain retail store location point of sale systems. The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers...
