by ray | Mar 7, 2015 | Security
Linux users got a nasty surprise today, as a security team at Red Hat uncovered a subtle but dangerous bug in the Bash shell, one of the most versatile and widely used utilities in Linux. It’s being called the Bash bug, or Shellshock. When accessed properly, the...
by ray | Mar 6, 2015 | Security
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,...
by ray | Mar 6, 2015 | Security
Companies keep getting hacked. And that’s music to the ears of the executives and investors in cybersecurity companies. February has been a phenomenal month for the overall stock market. The S&P 500 is up about 6%. But companies that help mitigate the damage...
by ray | Mar 6, 2015 | Security, Tech News
Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court action revealed that a security key unlocking the database was stored...
by ray | Mar 3, 2015 | Security
Less than a day after Apple detailed new efforts in user privacy for its products, Google now says it plans to encrypt user data on all Android devices. Speaking to The Washington Post, Google says data encryption will now be a part of the activation process...
by ray | Feb 27, 2015 | Security
Should investors be worried that EMC lost a bid to sell its document protection software to a big buyer of its storage hardware? Surely such revenue represents a tiny proportion of its total — after all data storage hardware remains its biggest source of revenue and...
