How to clear system data on Mac
If you are struggling with not enough storage and trying to make more space on your Mac, Apple helpfully outlines ways to save space and shows some mysteriously named elements taking up storage space. In…
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One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down
Getty Images One of the major data brokers engaged in the deeply alienating practice of selling detailed driver behavior data to insurers has shut down that business. Verisk, which had collected data from cars made…
The mystery of an alleged data broker’s data breach
Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a U.S. data broker, which would…
Hackers steal “significant volume” of data from hundreds of Snowflake customers
Getty Images As many as 165 customers of cloud storage provider Snowflake have been compromised by a group that obtained login credentials through information-stealing malware, researchers said Monday. On Friday, Lending Tree subsidiary QuoteWizard confirmed…
Mandiant says hackers stole a ‘significant volume of data’ from Snowflake customers
Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a “significant volume of data” from hundreds of customers hosting their vast banks of data with cloud storage giant Snowflake. Incident response firm Mandiant, which…
UK and Canada privacy watchdogs investigating 23andMe data breach
Privacy watchdogs in the U.K. and Canada have launched a joint investigation into the data breach at 23andMe last year. On Monday, the U.K,’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner…
What Snowflake isn’t saying about its customer data breaches
Snowflake’s security problems following a recent spate of customer data thefts are, for want of a better word, snowballing. After Ticketmaster was the first company to link its recent data breach to the cloud data…
Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster was hacked, says personal information stolen in data breach
Entertainment giant Live Nation has confirmed its ticketing subsidiary Ticketmaster has been hacked. Live Nation confirmed the data breach in a filing with government regulators late on Friday after the markets closed. In its statement,…
Spyware maker pcTattletale shutters after data breach
The founder of the spyware app pcTattletale said his company is “out of business and completely done” following a data breach over the weekend. The shutdown comes days after a hacker defaced the spyware maker’s…
Newly discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt victim data
A previously unknown piece of ransomware, dubbed ShrinkLocker, encrypts victim data using the BitLocker feature built into the Windows operating system. BitLocker is a full-volume encryptor that debuted in 2007 with the release of Windows…