BreachWalmart Canada’s Online Photocentre down after potential breachRobert AbelJuly 14, 2015Walmart Canada has taken down its online photo site and is investigating a compromise that may have impacted 60,000 people.
Incident ResponseUnited Airlines pays researcher bug bounty of 1M air milesRobert AbelJuly 14, 2015United Airlines paid a security researcher one million air miles for finding vulnerability and submitting it to the airline's bug bounty program.
Incident ResponseThreat intelligence survey: 43 percent only share info internallyDanielle WalkerJuly 9, 2015Many information security pros said threats discovered were shared strictly within the organization, but 81 percent wanted more public-to-private sector sharing.
Incident ResponseForeign hackers briefly commandeer German missile systemsAshley CarmanJuly 9, 2015Although a report indicated that a German missile system was taken over by hackers, a military spokesperson denied the claims.
Incident ResponseResearchers say education sector end users more prone to risky behaviorRobert AbelJuly 8, 2015End users in the education sector are twice as likely to be impacted by spyware and adware, and are equally as likely to visit malicious websites
Incident ResponseOpenSSL says patch for high severity bug to come soonRobert AbelJuly 7, 2015OpenSSL announced that it will release updates to patch a "high severity vulnerability" on Thursday, July 9.
Critical Infrastructure SecurityDHS, FBI lead ‘Cyber Guard’ exercise in VirginiaDanielle WalkerJuly 6, 2015From June 8 through June 26 more than 100 organizations participated in the fourth annual Cyber Guard exercise.
