CYBER News

Millions of Gmail Users Victims of Latest Password Heist
September 11, 2014
About 5 million Gmail usernames and passwords have been published on a Russian bitcoin security forum as a text file. Sixty percent of the 4.93 million credentials in the file were valid, claimed the poster, who used the online handle "tvskit." The information reportedly was dumped on several Russian cybercrime forums and shared through a variety of peer-to-peer services.

Home Depot All But Confirms Doozy of a Data Breach
September 03, 2014
Home Depot may have experienced a massive security breach -- possibly on a greater scale than last year's Target breach, which affected an estimated 110 million people. Home Depot said it was investigating the possibility, following security researcher Brian Krebs' Tuesday alert. It appears the perpetrators are the same hackers responsible for the data breaches at Target and elsewhere. 

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