The UK government will be imposing fines on organizations found guilty of being lax in cyber security. See here: UK organisations could face huge fines for cyber security failures for all the details. Yet another reason to be careful when you choose your web software, and your web host, to be sure they have top security…..
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Yet another case of an online security breach, including emails and passwords. See Over 560 Million Passwords Discovered in Anonymous Online Database from Gizmodo.com for full details. In brief, this is what they say: A trove of more than 560 million login credentials has been exposed by a leaky database, researchers revealed on Tuesday, including email addresses and passwords stolen from as many as 10 popular online services. The Kromtech Security Center blogged about this and called it the Mother of All Leaks. Among other things, they say there: Database is 75+ gigs in size and contains data structured in readable json format which included at least 10 previously leaked… Read More
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