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Jan, 2017 : HostingCon Global 2017 to Feature Keynote Hacker
📅 - Kevin Mitnick has been named as the keynote for HostingCon Global 2017 in April. Mitnick is a known white hat hacker and a security consultant. HostingCon Global joins many professionals across the data center, cloud and hosting industries. It will run from April 3rd to 6th in Los Angeles, California.
Mitnick is the CEO of Mitnick Security and a chief white hat hacker. He has spoken many times on social engineering and cybersecurity. Mitnick has even spoken publically about some of the things from his days as a black hat hacker.
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📅 - SEC Will Investigate Yahoo Due to Hacks - The Wall Street Journal has reported that The Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States will investigate Yahoo Inc. The reason for the investigation comes from the well documented data hacks the company suffered over the past few years.
This investigation could provide a blueprint on how companies are expected to respond to data hacks. It should provide some guidance to the SEC when handling these types of situations.
Yahoo suffered a massive data breach in 2014 with about 500 million accounts hacked. Another breach had happened in 2013, which impacted about 1 billion accounts. The 2014 breach wasn't reported by Yahoo to the public or their investors until two years later.