data theft

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A hacker group that named itself “The Unknowns” has recently boasted on Pastebin of having compromised a number of government, business and educational websites, …

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 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 …