Malware Distributed with Fake Costco, Walmart and Best Buy Delivery Failure...
In case youve ordered something these days from Costco, Walmart or Best Buy, beware of fake delivery failure emails since cybercriminals are using them to spread a piece of malware. According to...
View ArticleTarget Denies Hackers Stole Card PINs [Reuters]
Sources familiar with the investigation into the Target breach have told Reuters that the hackers appear to have obtained PIN data. However, the retailers representatives are denying the allegations....
View ArticleMobile carriers failed to use tech fixes to thwart spying: expert
The world’s mobile phone carriers have failed to implement technology fixes available since 2008 that would have thwarted the National Security Agency’s ability to eavesdrop on many mobile phone calls,...
View ArticleNatWest hit by cyber-attack leaving customers unable to access online accounts
The bank was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack, although it insists there was “no risk” to customers “Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website,...
View ArticleCan hackers crack Target’s encryption codes?
Target is telling its customers not to worry about their PIN information that was captured by hackers , because the information is encrypted.
View ArticleTarget breach may affect up to 121,000 Hawaii transactions
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View Article“Smart card” technology could protect shoppers from hackers
Security experts say the United States lags far behind many other countries in adopting readily available technology that can provide stronger protection for consumers.
View ArticleTarget Admits Hackers Stole Encrypted PIN Data
We continue to have no reason to believe that PIN data, whether encrypted or unencrypted, was compromised, Target said in a statement issued a couple of days ago. However, a new statement published on...
View ArticleGovernment Sites from Venezuela, Turkey, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia Hacked...
Bangladesh Grey Hat Hackers (BGHH) are protesting against the killing of innocent Muslims around the world by hacking the website of government organizations. The group has targeted government sites...
View ArticleResearchers Find Critical Vulnerability in Samsung Knox
Security researchers from the Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev in Israel say theyve uncovered a critical vulnerability in Samsung Knox, Samsungs enterprise mobile security solution thats...
View ArticleUnited Nations Population Fund Websites Defaced by Syrian Hacker
Syrian hacker Dr.SHA6H has breached and defaced a couple of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) websites. The targeted sites are the ones of the UNFPA in El Salvador (unfpa.org.sv) and the Republic...
View ArticleMalware Attacks by Syrian Pro-Government Hackers Are on the Rise
When we hear about Syrian hackers working on behalf of the regime of embattled President Bashar al-Assad, we think of the Syrian Electronic Army, the group of digital troublemakers that has hammered...
View ArticleIrish Credit Union Tullamore to Notify 3,500 People Impacted by Data Breach
The Tullamore credit union in Ireland will notify more than 3,500 people whose details have been exposed on the Internet back in December. According to the Irish Times, the financial organization...
View ArticleCredentials of US Government Workers Compromised in Poker Site Hack
A hacker that uses the online moniker smitt3nz claims to have breached the website of the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League (wptapl.com). Cyber War News reports that the email addresses and...
View ArticleCambridge’s Head of Cryptography: I Would Abolish MI5
Privacy campaigner and Cambridge University’s Head of Cryptography Professor Ross J Anderson has suggested one way to begin stamping out the British state’s unaccountable involvement in the NSA spying...
View ArticleFireEye Acquires Mandiant for $1 Billion
Security firms come together in a big bid to narrow the gap for real-time threat detection and response
View ArticlePatients of Barry University’s Foot and Ankle Institute Impacted by Malware...
Earlier this week, Barry University started notifying patients of the Foot and Ankle Institute that their personal information, including medical records, might have been compromised by cybercriminals....
View ArticleSnapchat to Update App in Wake of Hack
WASHINGTON – Snapchat said Thursday it would be releasing an updated version of its hit app after hackers accessed the phone numbers and usernames of 4.6 million accounts. The numbers were partially...
View ArticleAcademics Petition for End to ‘Blanket Surveillance’
WASHINGTON – More than 250 academics from around the world signed an online petition this week calling for an end to “blanket mass surveillance” by intelligence agencies. The petition said revelations...
View ArticleCicada 3301, cryptography and the quest for anonymity
The motto is one of many listed at the top of an Internet chat room. Here, dozens of cryptographers and code-breakers gather, waiting – scanning – wondering: will Cicada 3301 post again? Cicada 3301 –...
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