The whitelisting company says it was breached because it failed to install its own software on a number of its computers, giving saboteurs access to a code-signing certificate.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), a department of the Government of Canada, was reeling last month after the personal data of 583,000 Canadians was lost on a portable hard drive.
Several hundred employees and contractors at the U.S. Department of Energy were compromised in the breach, though reportedly no classified information was accessed by hackers.
In this video, Tom Buoniello, senior vice president of product management at AppRiver sits with Greg Masters, managing editor at SC Magazine, to discuss this prevalent threat and what users can do to protect themselves.
Twitter, with more than 500 million registered users globally, may soon be adding additional login protections. The company disclosed Friday that 250,000 people may have had their account data compromised.
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