data theft
Hotel management firm breached, card details of guests stolen
Hotel management firm White Lodging seems to have had its systems compromised and the attackers managed to exfiltrate a yet unknown quantity of credit and debit card details. …
Security breaches, data loss and outages cost U.S. hospitals $1.6B
A new MeriTalk report, based on a survey of healthcare IT executives and underwritten by EMC, quantifies the organizational cost associated with security breaches, data loss, …
Hackers breach Bell Canada, leak customer info and passwords
The hacker group NullCrew has managed to access servers belonging to Bell Canada – or a third-party supplier, as Bell claims – and steal and ultimately leak …
Yahoo Mail accounts compromised in coordinated attack
Unknown attackers have attempted to access a number of Yahoo Mail accounts, the company warned on Thursday, and urged users to change their passwords even if they …
“Honey Encryption” overwhelms attackers with fake results
Former RSA chief scientist Ari Juels is working on an innovative approach at encryption that could make cyber crooks’ like a lot more difficult. This new encryption …
New details about Target breach come to light
As data dumps of cards stolen in the Target breach continue to be sold on underground cybercrime forums, and the stolen information is being used to perform unauthorised …
Microsoft reveals law enforcement documents were stolen in latest hack
With a short blog post, Microsoft has announced on Friday that unknown hackers might have accessed and exfiltrated information regarding law enforcement information requests …
US mega-retailer Michaels has likely also been breached
Texas-based specialty retailer Michaels Stores is the latest company to officially announce that it has been targeted by cyber crooks that were after their customers’ …
1.1 million affected in Neiman Marcus breach
American luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus has finally offered some details about the breach it suffered during the end of the year holidays. It’s not as bad …
Best practices to help prevent online data breaches
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) recommended a series of best practices to help prevent online data breaches and other exploits. Leveraging preliminary year-end data from the …
Motivation and techniques of world’s most sophisticated cyber attackers
CrowdStrike released “CrowdStrike Global Threats Report: 2013 Year in Review,” the product of its year-long study of more than 50 groups of cyber threat actors. …
16 million logins compromised, warns German infosec agency
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued on Tuesday a notification warning that some 16 million online user accounts have been compromised, and …