According to the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study, a recent data security study conducted by Ponemon Institute and funded by IBM, about 25 percent of all U.S. data breaches were attributed to negligence, which includes failing to properly erase data from devices. In fact, the study reports negligent breaches are about half as…
Last week, Intel disclosed another set of processor flaws that could let attackers steal information stored on computers or third party clouds. Discovered by a number of researchers and reported to Intel in January, the vulnerability includes three varieties: L1 Terminal Fault-SGX, L1 Terminal Fault-OS/SMM and L1 Terminal Fault-VMM. The company said in a blog…
The following is a recap of the HOBI blog during the week 1/22-1/26. Investors Urge Apple to Upgrade Parental Controls In an open letter, two major Apple investors, JANA Partners, LLC and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, urged the company to strengthen and broaden parental control features. The investors believe Apple has a social responsibility…
Late Jan. 2, tech publisher, The Register, reported two security flaws that they say could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs will put laptops, desktop computers, smartphones, tablets and internet servers alike at…
Samsung recently released the official cause of multiple battery failures that led to an eventual recall of all Galaxy Note 7 devices. The company cited manufacturing and design flaws in batteries from two different suppliers as the cause of the device malfunctions. The Galaxy Note 7 recall costed Samsung an estimated amount of $5.3 billion,…
A report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout indicates the amount of data breaches reached an all-time high during 2016. According to the report’s findings, 1,093 data breaches were reported in the U.S. last year, a 40 percent increase from 780 during 2015. Last year, the business sector was the most targeted,…