Here is the weekly roundup :
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Equifax Data Breach Exposes 143 Million Users' Data to Identity Theft
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Major credit reporting firm Equifax has confirmed a data breach that affects a staggering 143 million people in the United States. That’s nearly half the country’s population that is now at risk of having their personal data leaked due to this breach. Charter Communications admitted that it had discovered a data breach containing the personal details of roughly four million records after a leak of a password-less Amazon server. First discovered on August 24 by security researchers, two Amazon S3 buckets were found and...
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Critical Security Flaw Leaves 65% of Fortune 100 Firms Vulnerable
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A newly discovered critical security vulnerability in popular open-source framework Apache leaves sensitive corporate data at risk. First reported by ZDNet, the vulnerability affects multiple versions of the Apache Struts REST plugin...
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Cybersecurity Risks are Substantial, Says SEC Chief
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The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has urged Wall Street to educate everyday investors on the ‘substantial risk’ of cybersecurity threats.
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FTC Slaps $3.5 Million Fine on Lenovo for Superfish Adware
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Laptop maker Lenovo has agreed to pay a $3.5 million fine after having been accused by the FTC for preinstalling adware call VisualDiscovery on its laptops in the United States between late 2014 and early 2015.
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Time Warner Data Breach Exposes Millions of Customer Records
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Charter Communications admitted that it had discovered a data breach containing the personal details of roughly four million records after a leak of a password-less Amazon server. First discovered on August 24 by security researchers, two Amazon S3 buckets were found and...
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IANS Symposium on Threat Hunting | 9/14
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