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Study reveals consumer trust gap on security
Impress Media Australia (press release) The Ponemon survey found that 45 per cent of Australian consumers have been notified by a company or government agency that their personal information was lost or stolen because of data breaches. Of these, 54 per cent experienced two or more separate … |
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Auditor Galloway recognizes schools in Dent, Oregon counties for notification policies in the case of data breach
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Equifax Says No Wrongdoing in Exec Stock Sales
WLTZ 38 NBC (CNN) – Equifax says four executives that sold off company stock before its massive data breach was announced; did not commit insider trading. The executives sold millions of dollars worth of shares between July 28th and August 2nd. Equifax said it … Equifax Board Releases Findings of Special Committee Regarding Stock Sale by Executives | Equifax Equifax executives sold stock days after the company learned of a massive hack |
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Mac and Linux versions of the Tor anonymity browser just received a temporary fix for a critical vulnerability that leaks users’ IP addresses when they visit certain types of addresses.
TorMoil, as the flaw has been dubbed by its discoverer, is triggered when users click on links that begin with file:// rather than the more common https:// and http:// address prefixes. When the Tor browser for macOS and Linux is in the process of opening such an address, “the operating system may directly connect to the remote host, bypassing Tor Browser,” according to a brief blog post published Tuesday by We Are Segment, the security firm that privately reported the bug to Tor developers.
On Friday, members of the Tor Project issued a temporary work-around that plugs that IP leak. Until the final fix is in place, updated versions of the browser may not behave properly when navigating to file:// addresses. They said both the Windows versions of Tor, Tails, and the sandboxed Tor browser that’s in alpha testing aren’t vulnerable.
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