data theft
Mistakes that led to the massive Utah data breach
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 …
Hacker jailed for targeting Call of Duty gamers
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-related threats cause significant data loss
Content-layer threats – those where an attacker leverages malicious software in what the user believes is harmless content – are posing increasing risks for …
Kickstarter bug granted access to unlaunched projects
A bug in the private application programming interface (API) of Kickstarter, the popular crowd funding website for creative projects, has exposed details about 70,000 projects …
Cyber attackers target US natural gas pipeline companies
Unknown attackers are actively targeting natural gas pipeline sector companies in the US with spear phishing emails, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial …
Phishers mimic OpenID to steal credentials
New spam email campaigns are taking advantage of the users’ vague familiarity with the OpenID authentication method to phish their login credentials for a number of …
New hacking group hits government websites, leaks stolen data
A hacker group that named itself “The Unknowns” has recently boasted on Pastebin of having compromised a number of government, business and educational websites, …
Columbia University notifies employees of breach
Personal and financial information of 3,000 current and former employees of Columbia University and 500 other individuals have been available online from January 2010 to March …
36 credit card fraud websites taken down
36 website domains, used to sell compromised card data, have been taken down following a day of action on Wednesday to target online criminals by SOCA working with the FBI and …
VMvare confirms server hypervisor source code leak
VMware has confirmed that a file from the VMware ESX server hypervisor source code has indeed been leaked by a hacker that goes by the handle “Hardcore Charlie” . …
SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price
A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botnet has security researchers worrying that users might soon be targeted with an increasing amount of …
Businesses fail to learn from 2011 data breaches
While data breaches perpetuated during 2011 clearly demonstrated the need for more comprehensive encryption of business and customer data, a survey of over 170 IT managers …