data theft
Chinese hackers for hire tied to Bit9 and Aurora attacks
The existence, the modus operandi and details of successful campaigns of another Chinese hacking group have been revealed by Symantec researchers, who have managed to tie to …
2M Vodafone users’ personal and banking info compromised
The names, addresses, birth dates, and bank account information of some 2 million German Vodafone users has been compromised in a breach of a server located “deep in the …
Hand of Thief Linux Trojan fails to work as promised
RSA researchers have recently spotted a banking Trojan targeting Linux systems being sold online by a cybercrime team based in Russia. Dubbed Hand of Thief by its creator(s), …
Leaked FinFisher presentation details toolkit’s spying capabilities
F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen has shared several interesting slides from a presentation that displays the wide range of capabilities offered by the FinFisher commercial …
Would you publicly report a security breach?
Recent research by AlienVault revealed that only 2% of surveyed EU companies would be willing to go public should they suffer a security breach. 38% opted to inform the …
League of Legends user account, credit card info compromised in breach
North American players of the popular League of Legends online game are advised to change their passwords as soon as possible, as a breach of Riot Games’ servers …
Canonical reveals details of Ubuntu Forums hack
Canonical has published a postmortem on the recent Ubuntu Forums hack and has shared a blow-by-blow account on how the attack was carried out. At 16:58 UTC on 14 July 2013, …
72k people affected by University of Delaware hack
University of Delaware is the latest of the high-learning institutions in the US to have been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. According to a …
Stanford University suffers another data breach
Stanford University has suffered another IT breach, and while its scope is yet to be determined, all users of the university’s computer system are advised to change the …
Lessons learnt from the Lakeland attack
Last Friday, the British Kitchenware store, Lakeland, suffered a major data breach that involved two encrypted databases. To make things worse, the company doesn’t know …
Ubuntu Forums hacker won’t publish stolen passwords
The Ubuntu Forums are still down following this weekend’s breach claimed by a hacker that goes by the online handle “Sputn1k_”, and there is no news on when …
Passwords of 1.8M Ubuntu Forums users compromised in hack
Ubuntuforums.org, the home of a variety of support forums dedicated to users of this popular Linux distribution, has been hacked over the weekend and defaced to show an image …