Breach

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has beefed up the authentication requirements on its website to better protect taxpayers and loan applicants.

A suspicious domain, misdepatrment[.]com, resembles a legitimate domain for technology services provider MIS Department Inc., which counts among its clients the DNC.

A brief privacy representation in the acquisition agreement between Microsoft and LinkedIn basically says the two companies will follow their own privacy policies and the law.

An unencrypted database was discovered containing 154 million records of U.S. voters, including addresses, phone numbers, political party, income range, ethnicity, age, and voting history.

Law enforcement officials in Knox County, Ill. earlier this week arrested a longtime IT employee of Abingdon-Avon School District #276 on electronic eavesdropping charges in connection with a recent data breach, according to local reports.

PandaLabs was able to work around the password to access the server controlling PunkeyPOS without credentials because the bad guys didn't properly configure it, the researchers said.

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department reported that customer data may have been compromised on two separate occasions.

A new study from FireEye finds that while Chinese cyber attacks have declined, they are now "more focused, calculated, and still successful in compromising corporate networks."