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ESET gathered information from a bunch of data breaches and compiled this list of the 25 most used passwords.  It really shouldn’t surprise anyone, but there’s a lot of weak passwords still being used today.  Take a look at the

Here’s a new twist on the Target hack:  Target’s payment partners could also be exposed to consume lawsuits and fines from the folks at Visa and Mastercard.  Classic example of asymmetric risk, interesting read and ramifications. http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20140114&id=17260087 Enjoy, –Kevin

The retail chain Neiman Marcus reported last week that it was hacked in mid-December last year. Here’s an article from the Washington Post, not much details on the hack, but it did elude to more retailers that got hacked.  It’ll

It’s time to do your taxes again, which means lots of personally identifiable information (PII) will be transmitted back and forth (hopefully securely).  Here’s an article on identity theft and how you can expect it to grow during the tax

Originally reported to be 40 million accounts breached, according to this news story the number is actually closer to 70 million.  Part of the article indicated that Target would miss its targets, speculating that it might be in part due