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Hacker claims to have breached Adobe, releases customer data
An Egyptian hacker claims to have breached one of Adobe’s servers and gotten his hands on a database containing over 150,000 records belonging to Adobe’s …
PayPal, Symantec, ImageShack, NBC targeted in hacking spree
The last few days have witnessed a flurry of activity and data leaks from several hacker groups. Anonymous has leaked VMware’s ESX Server kernel source code online, and …
Team GhostShell leaks 2.5M records from Russian govt, firms
Team GhostShell, the hacker group responsible for the recent leak of some 120,000+ records raided from top universities around the world, has done it again. “GhostShell …
Facebook investigates data leak from 1 million accounts
Facebook will be launching an internal investigation following the revelation by Czech blogger Bogomil Shopov that data belonging to over one million Facebook users was …
Most effective ways to stop insider threat
Imperva examined the psychological, legal and technological tactics employed by leading organizations to mitigate insider threats, a class of enterprise risk perpetuated by a …
Protecting print devices from malware
Xerox and McAfee revealed new protection against malware and viruses with the first networked multifunction printer to use McAfee Embedded Control software, a filtering method …
Hackers leak 120,000+ records raided from top universities
Team GhostShell, a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous, has leaked online information from over 120,000 user accounts stolen from the databases of over 100 higher education …
IEEE password compromise was due to proxy “anomaly”
Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin has revealed last week that he found the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …
IEEE data breach demonstrates need for increased server-level security
According to news reports, the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have been found unencrypted on a FTP …
Pirate Bay’s co-founder deported to Sweden, Anonymous hacks Cambodian ministry
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been deported from Cambodia and has landed at Stockholm’s airport this morning, reports TorrentFreak. The formal reason …
Publishing firm says leaked Apple IDs came from their servers
BlueToad, a Florida-based digital edition publishing company, has announced that the recent massive Apple UDID leak originated from their own servers, and not an FBI laptop. …
Apple denies handing UDIDs over to FBI
As the issue of the leaked million of Apple device IDs by the AntiSec hacker group and the alleged existence of a list of over 12 million of those and other personal …