data theft

Employee negligence or maliciousness is the root cause of many data breaches, according to the Ponemon Institute. Over 78 percent of respondents blame employee behaviors, both …

26-year-old software development student Glenn Mangham has been sentenced to spend eight months in jail following his hack into several Facebook servers between April and May …

Customers of TicketWeb UK, the popular British website selling event tickets, are being warned not to fall for fake emails purporting to come from the service, asking them to …

Beware of bogus FedEx emails asking you to review a shipment notification – the attached Fedex_Invoice.exe is actually a downloader Trojan that opens you computer to …

Attila Nemeth, a 26-year-old Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company’s internal documents and …

Researchers from security companies Zscaler and Seculert have issued a warning about bogus emails targeting employees of defense-related organizations around the world in …

A successful cooperation between a law firm and its clients depends on the firm’s ability of keeping the details of these relationships confidential – something …

DreamHost, one of the world’s most popular and well-known web hosting providers, has sent a warning out to its customers saying that one of their databases containing …

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, …

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 …

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, 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 …