data theft

News that an unknown individual leaked what appeared to be a batch of 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on a Russian forum and asked for help in decrypting them spread like fire …

It has been a tough 24 hours for LinkedIn. First they were accused of storing users’ potentially confidential private and business information on the company servers …

Day after day, new details are discovered by security researchers that seem to prove the talent and the apparently unlimited resources that the authors of the Flame toolkit …

A business’s ability to protect personal information and communicate the circumstances of a data breach can impact customer loyalty and an organization’s …

The former Director-General of UK’s internal security service MI5 has had her laptop stolen at London’s Heathrow airport on Tuesday. Dame Stella Rimington, who …

Over a quarter of companies believe that if their sites go down or they suffer a major security breach it could potentially cost customers’ their lives, according to …

A new sophisticated piece of malware dubbed “Flame” has been discovered in systems belonging to users in many Middle Eastern countries and is though to have been …

WHMCS, the company behind the popular commercial billing and automation software program used by many web hosting firms, has had its web server hacked on Monday. Hacker group …

Phone spying apps are usually offered on hacking forums and third party app markets, but given their malicious potential, it’s unusual to see them being offered for sale …

A little over a month ago, the largest data breach in Utah history resulted in the compromise of Social Security numbers of some 280,000 Medicaid and Children’s Health …

It’s a bad week for British hackers as another youth has been handed a prison sentence. 20-year-old Lewys Martin from Kent is a repeat offender that, among other things, …

Content-layer threats – those where an attacker leverages malicious software in what the user believes is harmless content – are posing increasing risks for …