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40 Enterprise Computers Infected with Second-Stage CCleaner Malware
The cyberespionage group that managed to inject malware into CCleaner installers used them to deploy specialized malware to 40 computers from 12 technology and telecommunications companies. The new information comes from researchers ...
Like Equifax, Thousands of Companies Use Vulnerable Apache Struts Versions
U.S. credit monitoring bureau Equifax has been heavily criticized for its failure to patch a known critical vulnerability in the Apache Struts web development framework, an oversight that led to a massive ...
IRS Tax Fraud and IRS’s Woeful Cybersecurity
In late July, the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued the results of audit on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its woeful state of information security, a state which continues to ...
Equifax Confirms Hackers Broke In Through Apache Struts Flaw
U.S. credit reporting bureau Equifax confirmed Wednesday that the theft of personal information of more than 143 million consumers from its systems in May was the result of a vulnerability in the ...
Equifax Data Breach: Q&A with Forrester Analyst Heidi Shey
The recent Equifax data breach highlights the need for businesses to undertake security and risk management plans. As consumers struggle to learn whether their information held by the credit reporting agency has ...
Equifax Rated ‘F’ in Application Security Before Breach
One of the biggest data security and privacy nightmares became real for millions of Americans last week as news broke that Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies in the ...
Equifax Data Breach Hits Half of American Consumers
Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies in the United States, announced that hackers broke into its systems and gained access to the personal information of more than 143 million ...
US Government moves towards OpenID
Jason Miller reports for Federal News Radio about the US government’s attempts to consolidate logins and potentially integrate current PIV card holders into a unified authentication and identity repository for accessing government ...
