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Source of Snapchat Picture Hack Admits Breach

The attack and picture leak known as the "Snappening against Snapchat users now has a confirmed root cause, with Snapsaved.com admitting a data breach....

Add Kmart to the List of POS Data Breach Victims

National retailer Kmart, a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corp., publicly confirmed on Oct. 10 that it had been breached by a form of point-of-sale...

Dairy Queen Confirms Backoff Malware Breach

After a month of speculation and investigation, restaurant chain International Dairy Queen officially confirmed on Oct. 9 that its stores had been the victim...

Google Patches Chrome for 159 Security Vulnerabilities

Google officially released the Chrome 38 browser on Oct. 9, providing users with few new features. The main focus of Chrome 38 is stability...

Yahoo Admits It Was Breached but Not Shellshocked

Yahoo is admitting that it was impacted by a security issue this week, but it wasn't the Shellshock bug that was the root cause.Security...

JPMorgan Reportedly Breached a Second Time

At the end of August, JPMorgan Chase was identified as being the target of a large attack. The financial giant has now been breached...

Google Increases Bug Bounty Payouts

Finding bugs isn't an act of charity; it's a time-consuming process that researchers should be rewarded for. That's a fact that Google understands well...

Apple Patches Shellshock as Attacks Continue

Five days after the Shellshock vulnerability in the Bash (Bourne Again SHell) shell scripting application was first publicly reported, Apple is finally providing a...

Firefox, Google Chrome Updates Fix BERserk SSL Flaw

While much of the technology world has been consumed with the Shellshock vulnerability, which was first reported on Sept. 24, another big open-source vulnerability...

Apple Restores Two-Factor Authentication to iCloud

More than three weeks after it was publicly shamed for leaky security, Apple has finally tightened security by enforcing two-factor authentication for iCloud access.In...