Cybersecurity

Avoidable digital certificate issues fuel data breaches – Help Net Security

Among organizations that have suffered data breaches 58% were caused by issues related to digital certificates, according to a report by AppViewX and Forrester Consulting. As a result of service outages, 57% said their organizations have incurred costs upwards of $100,000 per outage. According to the Forrester study, “Enterprise organizations have traditionally been less focused […]

Cybersecurity

Outlook Breach: Microsoft Reveals How a Crash Dump Led to a Major Security Breach

Sep 07, 2023THNCyber Attack / Email Hacking Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known as Storm-0558 acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forge tokens and access Outlook by compromising an engineer’s corporate account. This enabled the adversary to access a debugging environment that contained information pertaining to a crash of the […]

Cybersecurity

Paramount Pictures data breach exposes personal data

Production company, Paramount Pictures, has revealed that it recently suffered a data breach that exposed personally identifying information.  In a data breach notification letter written to impacted parties, the production company explained that an unauthorized party had gained access to its systems between May and June of this year, allowing them to access customers’ personal […]

Data Center

What is I/O (input/output)? | Definition from TechTarget

What is I/O (input/output)? I/O (input/output), pronounced “eye-oh,” describes any operation, program or device that transfers data to or from a computer. Common I/O devices include printers, hard disks, keyboards and mice. Input/output devices play a crucial role in computer programming by streamlining how computing devices communicate across a network. Why is I/O important? In […]