Equifax Says 145.5M Affected by Breach, Ex-CEO Testifies
The credit bureau Equifax said Monday the information of 145.5M Americans, was implicated in this summer’s breach.
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Judge: FBI Can Keep iPhone Crack and Price Secret
The FBI can keep details around how much it paid and which company it hired to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016 secret, the court ruled over the weekend.
Siemens Patches Improper Access Vulnerability in Ruggedcom Protocol
Industrial manufacturer Siemens is encouraging users running devices that use its Ruggedcom protocol to apply firmware updates this week. The updates resolve a serious and remotely exploitable vulnerability that could let an attacker carry out administrative actions.
Digital civil liberty activists with Fight for the Future and Free Press were hit with a phishing emails designed to steal business credentials earlier this summer.
Signal is testing out a new private contact discovery service that will let the app determine if a user has Signal contacts in their address book, but forbid its servers from accessing the users’ address book.
Oracle released fixes for a handful of recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerabilities late last week.
Deloitte, one of the “big four” global accounting firms, admitted it fell victim to a cyber attack last year but downplayed the incident on Monday saying it only affected a few of its high profile clients.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said this week that hackers managed to infiltrate one of its systems last year, something that likely facilitated insider trading.
Researchers combed through 2,000 Chrome error reports to better classify HTTPS error warnings.
Equifax suffered another breach of its systems, back in March, the company revealed Monday.
