data theft
Programmer steals US government software source code
A Chinese computer programmer has been arrested in New York for having allegedly copied and stolen the source code of software developed by the US Treasury Department, …
Threat incidents and security wins in 2011
Having spent much of the year battling data breaches that led to huge information and financial loss, the security industry was likely relieved to see 2011 come to a close. In …
Hackers breach T-Mobile Web server, leak staff data
A Web server hosting part of T-Mobile’s official website has apparently been compromised by TeaMp0isoN, a hacker collective associated with Anonymous, and some of the …
Zappos hacked, info of 24+ million customers may be compromised
Zappos, the shoe-and-apparel-selling division of Amazon, has been hit by cyber attackers and has had one of its servers compromised and information from it exfiltrated. The …
San Francisco City College systems infected for over a decade
Computers and servers of the City College of San Francisco have been discovered to be infected with a myriad of computer viruses and information-stealing malware, and some of …
Hacks of Chinese sites either inside jobs or faked
Last week’s news that hacks of a number of high-profile sites resulted in the compromise of personal and financial information of over 100 million Chinese Internet users …
Cyber attack on Israeli sites considered terrorist operation, says Israeli official
The new year started with a number of data leaks made by Anonymous, and one leak by a hacker dubbed 0xOmar, who is allegedly part of the “largest Wahhabi hacker group of …
Stratfor hack exposes UK, US and NATO officials to danger, phishing
During the last days of 2011, Anonymous attacked Stratfor, a US-based research group that gathers intelligence and produces political, economic and military reports that help …
Leaked Symantec source code is five years old
Following claims made by a Indian hacker group that they are in possession of source code for Symantec’s Norton Antivirus solution and that they plan to post in online, …
Ramnit worm goes social, steals Facebook passwords
Ramnit – the file-infecting, financial-data-stealing worm that has been around since April 2010 – has been modified again and is now bent on stealing Facebook …
100m users exposed in hacks of popular Chinese sites
Chinese Internet users are getting a taste of what users in the Western world have already become accustomed to: changing their online passwords and fearing that their credit …
Israeli credit card hack creates more opportunities
In a recent data breach incident, a Saudi hacker defaced a prominent sports news web site in Israel and linked its front page to a file exposing the details of many credit …