Topic: breach

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Anthem Healthcare reveals third-party security breach of 18,580 customers

A third-party breach may have exposed approximately 18,580 customers’ personal and medical data from Anthem Healthcare. This breach comes a month after Anthem agreed to pay $115 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the 2015 breach that compromised personal information of almost 80 million customers. Anthem spokesman Gene Rodriguez reported that the incident links … continue reading

Yahoo discloses new breach; 1 billion users affected

Yahoo has been hacked, again. The company Wednesday disclosed that a newly discovered data breach had exposed the private information of more than one billion Yahoo users. It is believed that this breach is separate from the breach disclosed this September, where 500 million accounts were jeopardized. Regardless, the news means Yahoo has been the … continue reading

Verily’s Debug Project, Nexedi to sue Apple, and Verizon wants a discount from Yahoo—SD Times news digest: Oct. 7, 2016

Verily is stepping up its debugging game by focusing on eliminating a real, dangerous bug: the mosquito. At the end of 2014, Google started exploring what it could do about problems caused by mosquitos. At the same time, Verily (initially Google Life Sciences) was founded to solve the problems of preventing disease on a global scale, … continue reading

Yahoo’s security, CommitStrip’s developer comic book, and Citus MX in private beta—SD Times news digest: Sept. 23, 2016

After a recent investigation surfaced regarding Yahoo’s network hack that resulted in at least 500 million user accounts being stolen, Yahoo released a statement on its Tumblr to discuss what actions it’s taking to protect its users. To start, Bob Lord, chief information security officer of Yahoo, wrote in an e-mail that the company is … continue reading

GoPro Developer Program unveiled, Project Tango simulates space travel, and Microsoft sues the Justice Department—SD Times news digest: April 15, 2016

GoPro has unveiled the GoPro Developer Program as a way to support companies that want to develop a better user experience. The GoPro Developer program was debuted at a private event in San Francisco. The program has been working with developers in a variety of companies, as well as a bunch of startups. “Over the … continue reading

Top 5 projects trending on GitHub this week

#1: πfs It’s a file system in Pi. Developed by Philip Langdale, πfs takes one of the most important constants in mathematics to simple, compressed file storage. Πfs applies a disjunctive sequence to files, converting all files into metadata stored in a metadata directory. It’s a data-free file system for the metadata-driven world. #2: Realm … continue reading

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