Reading, 6 April 2020 – An unwelcome repercussion of employees snapping up laptops for home working ahead of the coronavirus lockdown has been an even bigger spike in cyber-criminal activity.
Continue readingOn 22 September 2016 Yahoo! released a statement and the full extent of the 2014 Yahoo! data breach was revealed. With at least 500 million Yahoo! accounts being hacked and their information stolen, this is to date the biggest data theft that the Internet has experienced. The occurrence of data theft instances has increased rapidly in recent years, but this one is quite severe.
The breach occurred in late 2014, and it is unclear how long Yahoo! have been aware of the enormity of it. In their statement, they also claim that they believe a “state-sponsored actor” (hacker paid by the government) was responsible for the crime. Their official statement came two months after the company admitted to investigating a hacker who was selling the data of some 200 million Yahoo! stolen accounts on a dark web marketplace for a meagre one bitcoin (more or less $2000).
This airing of Yahoo!’s dirty laundry comes at a very inappropriate time for them, as a company named Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo! in late July 2016 for $4.83 billion. The acquisition was scheduled to be finalised in early 2017. Verizon only found out about the breach in September.
Damages to Yahoo! and Verizon as companies set aside – let us reflect on what the ramifications are for the Yahoo! account holders in question:
It’s fair to accept that most users won’t take online account security advice from Yahoo!.
Meanwhile, our hearts bleed for Yahoo!. Godspeed!
Reading, 6 April 2020 – An unwelcome repercussion of employees snapping up laptops for home working ahead of the coronavirus lockdown has been an even bigger spike in cyber-criminal activity.
Continue readingJohannesburg, 17 December 2019 – Office 365 is a prime target for cyber criminals – and it’s not difficult to understand why when Microsoft announced this year that it has more than 180m active commercial users every month.
Continue readingJohannesburg, 24 October 2019 – Redstor, the company disrupting the world of data management, will demonstrate at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ in Barcelona how a pioneering technology developed in South Africa slashes the cost of Office 365 protection.
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