Late last year, Yahoo announced that it was the victim of the largest data breach in history. It impacted, by their initial estimates, fully one third of their user base, some one billion users.

As it turns out, Yahoo’s estimates were wildly inaccurate.

By now, you’ve probably heard that Equifax recently suffered a massive data breach which left them with a considerable amount of egg on their faces.

The investigation into that matter is ongoing, and the company issued a video-based mea culpa to its customers, but unfortunately, the situation for the company just got worse.

The hackers of the world have been busy recently, but this latest report from the SEC shows that not only has the number of their attacks been increasing, but also that the level of sophistication continues to grow by leaps and bounds as well.

Specifically, the SEC reported that hackers may have gained access to their “EDGAR” (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) system.

For a time, it seemed we had reached the high-water mark where Locky Ransomware was concerned. After the big, global attack earlier this year, interest in that particular strain of ransomware seemed to wane as hackers went off in search of the “next new thing” to deploy against the unwitting public.

We’ve seen a lot of hacking attacks so far this year, but the successful breach of SVR Tracking may take the prize as the most invasive attack of 2017.

If you’re not familiar with the company, SVR Tracking provides a vehicle tracking service.

Control-Alt-Delete.

It’s a series of keystrokes that pretty much everyone who has ever used a Windows PC knows well. It is, after all, your escape hatch. When the program starts misbehaving, it’s a user’s go-to keystroke command to force-quit the issue, and surprisingly, Bill Gates said in a recent interview that it’s one of his few regrets.

Google’s Project Zero Team has created a new tool for testing web browsers in order to gauge how secure they are.

The team recently conducted an extensive test on the top five web browsers in use today:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Edge
• Internet Explorer

The results weren’t pretty.

Things continue to worsen on the smart medical device front.

Recently, the USDA issued a recall order on six different models of pacemakers, all of which were vulnerable to hacks that would have allowed the hackers to literally kill the patients who relied on them.

Manufacturers of hard disks are in trouble and they know it. They have been since the development of SSDs, and as these newer disks grow in capacity and continue to see their prices fall, the outlook is increasingly bleaker for conventional hard disk manufacturers.

Since the development of BitCoin, cyrptocurrencies have seen a tremendous surge in popularity. In fact, in recent months, the value of all the major cryptocurrencies currently available has spiked, fueling even greater interest and speculation.

That growing interest is also fueling something else: the marked increase of currency mining software clandestinely installed on an unwitting user’s machine.