data theft

In the wake of the highly publicized Target and Neiman Marcus breaches, Texas-based arts and crafts store chain Michaels has stated in January that it has been targeted by …

A 19-year-old Canadian student has been arrested for breaching the systems of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and extracting Social Insurance Numbers of some 900 taxpayers. It …

Hackers have targeted Harley Medical Group, one of the leading cosmetic surgery provider in the UK, and have apparently made off with personal information entered into the …

French computer storage hardware manufacturer LaCie has suffered a data breach that affected a yet unconfirmed number of their customers. “On March 19, 2014, the FBI …

Daving Helkowski, a software architect/engineer working for software consultancy Canton Group, has made a serious mistake that has already cost him his job and might end up …

After lurking in the shadows for the first ten months of 2013, cybercriminals unleashed the most damaging series of cyberattacks in history. Symantec’s Internet Security …

In 2013, HALOCK Security Labs noted information security vulnerabilities at colleges and universities along with numerous challenges that plague these institutions across the …

Police in northwestern German city of Verden have discovered a collection of 18 million stolen email addresses and corresponding passwords that are being actively used to send …

Texan liquor chain Spec’s has been breached, and personal and financial information of over half a million of its customers has been compromised in a breach that lasted …

The forum database of Web TV service Boxee.tv has been ransacked and the attacker made off with – and has subsequently made available for download – a dump …

82% of IT professionals are either “concerned” or “very concerned” that their organization will face a security breach in the next year, according to …

A new report by McAfee examines the controversy and confusion surrounding Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs), and the role that they play in Advanced Persistent Threats …