U.S. Government The personal information of thousands of U.S. citizens and employees holding security clearances up to Top Secret have been compromised. The security breach was revealed by Chris Vickery Director of cyber risk research...
Read More →Cloudflare, a content delivery and security service, announced a major bug has been discovered that may have exposed users sensitive data on millions of websites. The bug, dubbed ‘Cloudbleed’, was discovered in Cloudflare’s content optimization...
Read More →Cyber criminals are sending out fake Amazon emails telling you that there is a problem with your order. Customers are being told to resolve the problem by clicking on a link to confirm certain information. The scam...
Read More →The largest data breach of 2016 so far has hit a data server operated by Albany, N.Y. based Newkirk Products. Newkirk Products is a third-party vendor providing health insurance ID cards for the health care...
Read More →Hackers are hell bent on stealing tax refunds. On Tuesday the IRS announced an attack that occurred last month in which cyber criminals were able to steal taxpayer identification numbers before the Internal Revenue Service...
Read More →The personal information of nearly 30,000 federal employees, including FBI employees may have been compromised. According to Motherboard.com an anonymous hacker used a compromised Department of Justice email account to gain access to the department’s intranet....
Read More →A massive and mysterious voter database has been exposed online and no one knows who it belongs to, how it got there or when it will be removed. An independent security researcher by the name...
Read More →December 2, 2015 Breach Brief – VTech Digital learning toy maker VTech reported a data breach that exposed the personal information of over five million customers and 200,000 children. Hackers were able to retrieve the profile information...
Read More →African-Americans all over the county are about to dive into the holiday season to exercise close to a trillion dollars in buying power. And you can bet a lot of that money will be spent online...
Read More →October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The African-American Cyber Report is dedicated to bringing the latest most relevant cyber security news and information to black people. The AACR answers black people when they ask; “What does that mean to...
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