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Worst security breaches of the year 2014: Sony tops the list

As 2014 winds down, the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment is clearly the biggest data breach of the year and among the most devastating to any corporation ever.

Attackers broke in and took whatever they wanted, exfiltrating gigabytes and gigabytes of documents, emails and even entire movies, apparently at will for months and months on end.

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Mobile Security Experts: Worst is Yet to Come – Infosecurity Magazine

Mobile Security Experts: Worst is Yet to Come
Infosecurity Magazine
A panel of security experts clashed today in a lively debate on the level of the mobile malware threat facing enterprises, but all predicted that risk will increase going forward as new generations of devices and services and new generations of

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Top 25 most commonly used and worst passwords of 2013

All the website breaches and endless warnings about the use of weak passwords finally soaked in and resulted in a change to the most commonly-used and worst password on the Internet, which was “password”. But before you get too excited about netizens embracing better cybersecurity habits, know that “123456” is #1 and “password” fell to #2 on the list of top 25 worst passwords of 2013.
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