• Russian Hacker Charged with 2014 JPMorgan Chase Breach

    Russian Hacker Charged with 2014 JPMorgan Chase Breach

    In 2014, approximately 76 million JPMorgan Chase customers found out that hackers had accessed the company’s database.  Not only had they accessed the database, but they had access for two months.  Now, U.S. officials have secured the extradition of the Russian man believed to be responsible – Andrei Tyurin.  Tyurin is from Georgia and is being…

  • T-Mobile is the Latest Victim of a Security Data Breach

    T-Mobile is the Latest Victim of a Security Data Breach

    T-Mobile and its customers have become the victim of a cybersecurity issue.  In a statement released this week, T-Mobile has indicated that an unauthorized entry into its network may have given hackers access to customer records.  The data that may have been stolen includes ZIP codes, phone numbers, email addresses and even account numbers.  The…

  • Security Researcher Finds Bug in Facebook – Gets Paid $2,500

    Security Researcher Finds Bug in Facebook – Gets Paid $2,500

    Tech companies, like Apple and Facebook, actually pay people who are able to locate and then report on bugs found within their software.  Recently, Facebook paid a security researcher $2,500 for information on a bug that took him less than 3 minutes to discover without any testing or proof of concept.  The vulnerability was exposing…