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June 9, 2012  1:18 PM

Change your Last.fm password



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, hackers, Password

If you are a member of music site Last.fm, you may want to change your password. While they have not confirmed that any passwords have leaked, an announcement on their web site says they are "investigating the leak of some Last.fm user...

June 7, 2012  1:51 AM

Change your LinkedIn password



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, Hacker, insecure, LinkedIn, security breach

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May 31, 2012  8:03 PM

Reintroducing Identity Exposure Index (IEI)



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, Identity Exposure Index, Identity Theft

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January 18, 2012  1:38 PM

Zappos security breach affects 24 million



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, hackers, Password best practice, Password Paradigm

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May 16, 2011  10:50 PM

Michaels POS Breach Bigger than Reported



Posted by: Ken Harthun
Credit Card Fraud, data breach, Fraud, Security

Michaels Stores, Inc. says that their point-of-sale (POS) PIN pads at 90 stores in 20 states were tampered with. The craft store chain is replacing PIN pads at most of its 964 U.S. Stores. According to BankInfoSecurity.com, the breach is much bigger than the company initially thought. [See


May 7, 2011  3:32 PM

LastPass Experiences Network Anomaly, Forces Users to Change Master Passwords



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, LastPass, security awareness, Security best practice

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April 30, 2011  10:37 PM

Think You’re Not a Target Because You’re Small? Think Again



Posted by: Ken Harthun
Credit Card Fraud, data breach, Data Theft, Hacker, Online banking fraud, security audits, Security best practice, SQL Injection

If you pay attention to mainstream media, you can easily get the wrong idea about online attacks. The press usually only covers the sensational data breaches like the recent Epsilon and Sony fiascoes. Truth is, there are far more people at risk than the press leads you to believe. Consider the...


April 27, 2011  10:44 PM

Personal Data of 70 Million People Stolen in PlayStation Network Hack



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, Fraud, hackers, Identity Theft, Sony

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April 16, 2011  6:47 PM

Data Breaches — Steps to Take if You Are Notified



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, Data Privacy, Fraud, Identity Theft

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March 29, 2011  6:32 PM

The RSA (SecureID) Compromise



Posted by: Ken Harthun
data breach, RSA Security, Security, Two-factor authentication

On March...