Financial details of some of the world's richest people are set to be published after a Bermuda-based offshore firm suffered a data breach, a British newspaper reported Wednesday. The legal firm, Appleby, said it was bracing for documents to be published after being approached by the media network behind the Panama Papers. The US-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and affiliated media raised allegations against the company's operations and its

Google has rolled out two new tools to combat phishing, and upped Gmail security. Google is stepping up defenses against phishing through a new predictive feature coming to Chrome and its Advanced Protection Program for high-risk Gmail users. Google has updated its Safe Browsing technology to warn users when they visit a new phishing page that hasn't existed long enough to be detected by Safe Browsing as a known phishing site. The new predictive phishing protection for Chrome

We are a culture of “likes,” numbers and ratings. In today’s age, we have easy access to any public information on the internet, and thanks to the explosion of big data, we also have the ability to view, manipulate and compare numbers in a variety of ways. We’ve been conditioned to ask for the numbers in order to analyze them and tell a story, and this conditioning applies to everything from our personal Instagram accounts to our FICO credit scores. Ratings and the data behin

Weak passwords offer many hackers an entry point into enterprises. Here's what the future of security will look like. As employees remain the no. 1 cause of company data breaches, it's key for security leaders to look to a common digital entry point for hackers: Passwords. When examining organizations that had been compromised, 100% of the time a password was leveraged at some point in the malicious campaign, according to Chad Holmes, chief technology, innovation and strategy

Colin Kaepernick, both for his skill on the field and for his refusal to stand during the national anthem in August last year, is one of the most prominent names in the NFL business, even if he doesn't have a team. Given the polarizing nature of his protest, and the death threats Kaepernick said he subsequently received, he could do without his personal contact details, including his cellphone number and physical address, being leaked. But that's what has happened, in a data