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OnePlus Reveals Second Data Breach in Two Years

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Caleb Townsend, Staff Writer, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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OnePlus

Smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has been the victim of a data breach in which an unauthorized party gained access to customer’s order information. One Plus has released a statement revealing that customer names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses might have been susceptible to theft. However, they have revealed that customer’s payment information, passwords, and accounts … Read more

What is a Honeypot?

Author(s):

Caleb Townsend, Staff Writer, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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honeypot sitting on a brown paper on a table. Spoon in honey. Honey jar.

In 1986, systems administrator Clifford Stoll noticed nine seconds of unpaid computer time at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Upon being asked to resolve this, Stoll eventually came to the conclusion that a hacker had illegally gained access to their network by exploiting a vulnerability. Stoll decided he would set up a trap for the hacker. He … Read more

Cloud Computing

Author(s):

Lauren Abshire, Director of Content Strategy, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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A cloud is raining information onto a hand holding a cell phone as a metaphor for Cloud Computing

The Cloud, what and where IS this cloud? This may be a question you have asked yourself. Simply, “cloud computing” is accessing and storing applications, data and information over the Internet, as opposed to…