Oregon Department of Human Services Suffered a Data Breach
Personal data of more than 645,000 Oregon, Department of Human Services (DHS) were exposed during a data breach that occurred in January 2019, the...
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Flaws in LTE can allow hackers to spoof presidential alerts
Last year, the United States performed the first public test of the national Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA), an alert system designed to send messages...
US bill to force tech giants to tell users how much their data is worth
Apple CEO lambasts Silicon Valley for not owning up to privacy mistakes Time for tech companies to take responsibility for the digital privacy mess...
Flaws in Phoenix Contact Automationworx Allow Code Execution via Malicious Files
Several vulnerabilities affecting the Phoenix Contact Automationworx automation software suite can be exploited for remote code execution using specially crafted project files. Advisories describing...
Start and Deploy your Own Fully Synced Ethereum Node in Under 10 Minutes
Dependencies Before continuing, you should install these dependencies: NodeJS & NPM Geth Once we’ve installed these dependencies, we can install Embark. npm install -g...
Florida city to pay $600,000 to ransomware gang
The city council of Riviera Beach, Florida, have voted unanimously to pay more than $600,000 in Bitcoins to a ransomware gang who had held...
Will Facebook’s Libre Coins Exist Soon? Ask Congress
For many years, Facebook literally ignored the existence of cryptocurrency as a potential business which the social media giant can engage with. As the...
Stringent data protection regulation has gone global
What the future looks like as GDPR’s one-year anniversary approaches ZDNet’s Danny Palmer sits down with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby to break down exactly what...
VideoLAN Patches Critical Vulnerability in VLC Media Player
VideoLAN has addressed a critical double-free vulnerability in the VLC media player that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on target systems....
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NIST Cybersecurity Framework For Organizations To Follow
The National Institute of Standards and Framework for Cyber Security Framework (CSF) was released in February 2014 in response to the residential Executive Order...