Average Cost of Breach Goes Down, For the First Time Ever

NEW YORK–The global average cost of a data breach last year dropped 11.4 percent from 2015 to $3.6 million. The reduction is attributed mostly to a strong U.S. dollar, with wins also offset by a 1.8 percent increase in the size of breaches in 2016. The numbers come from Peter Allor, senior cyber...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 29, 2017

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s not exactly clear how Murphy’s Law originated, but it seems to always make an appearance at the one time you can’t afford for anything to go wrong. Your laptop starts to malfunction right as you need to finish a project this happened to yours truly...

TestDisk - Partition Recovery and File Undelete for Windows, Linux and Mac

TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software : certain types of viruses or human error such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table...

NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Collection Program Legal

A federal court today shot down a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU to the National Security Agency’s bulk phone metadata collection program, determining that the spy agency’s actions are legal. The ruling by U.S. District Court judge William Pauley contradicts a Dec. 16 D.C...

Texas Comptroller Exposes Personal Data on Millions

The Texas Comptroller’s Office is issuing letters Wednesday to some 3.5 million citizens after personally identifiable data was left exposed to the public on a state server for more than a year, according to a published statement. The exposed data included the names, addresses and Social Security...

Tumblr security flaw, Clarification by Tumblr official staff !

Tumblr security flaw, Clarification by Tumblr official staff ! On our yesterday post about Tumblr security flaw : server IPS, API keys, passwords, etc were leaked, Finally Tumblr official staff gives a statement to all their users as below : A human error caused some sensitive server configuratio...

Dell Blames Malware on Human Error

Dell said human error was to blame for mistakes which led it to ship a number of replacement server motherboards to customers pre-loaded with spyware. The company declined to say whether it was running anti-virus software at its factory but said it had taken 16 steps to improve processes. Read th...

Google Sorry For Business User Data Leak

Google is apologizing after it mistakenly e-mailed potentially sensitive business data last week to other users of its business listings service. Read the full article. InfoWorld...

Fixing a Security Problem Isn't Always the Right Answer

An unidentified man breached airport security at Newark Airport on Sunday, walking into the secured area through the exit, prompting an evacuation of a terminal and flight delays that continued into the next day. This problem isn’t common, but it happens regularly. The result is always the same,...

Chaminade University Exposed Student SSNs

Human error is to blame for the accidental exposure last week of more than 4,500 Chaminade University student’s Social Security numbers on the private Catholic college’s official Web site. University officials discovered the snafu Wednesday and quickly removed the obscure but accessible links fro...

Microsoft Blames Human Error For Critical SMB2 Vulnerability

Microsoft is blaming human error for the the critical SMB v2 vulnerability that exposed Windows users to remote code execution attacks and argues that it’s near impossible to catch these types of bugs with existing code review tools and techniques. According to a post-mortem of the issue by Redmo...