Monthly Archives: March 2015

More Than One Billion Records Containing Personally Identifiable Information Leaked in 2014: Report

The number of records with personally identifiable information leaked reached over a billion in 2014 after a drastic increase in reported vulnerabilities in Q4, according to the latest threat report by IBM X-Force. Continue reading

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Carpathia Helps Enterprises Manage Hybrid Clouds with New Cloud Operations Platform for AWS

With hybrid cloud becoming more popular with enterprises, managing workloads across public clouds and on-premise infrastructure can be a challenge. To address this, hosting and cloud provider Carpathia launched its Cloud Operations Platform for Amazon Web Services on Wednesday. Continue reading

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Americans Take Online Privacy into Their Own Hands in Post-Snowden World: Pew Report

Eighty-seven percent of Americans say they have heard either “a little” or “a lot” about government surveillance programs, and of those just over one-third have taken one or more step to protect information from the government. Continue reading

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Hackers Access 11 Million Accounts at Premera Including Clinical Information

Premera announced on Tuesday that it discovered a security breach on Jan. 29, 2015 that first began on May 5, 2014. Hackers using malware were able to breach the Premera network to gain access to 11 million customer records including information such as member name, date of birth, email address,… Continue reading

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Google Apps Bug Exposes Personal Data Belonging to More Than 200K Domain Owners

A Google Apps bug has publicly revealed 282,867 hidden WHOIS records. Domains registered with eNom with WHOIS record protection renewed through Google Apps in 2013 were affected, Cisco announced in a recent blog post. Continue reading

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