Adobe Issues Emergency Patch To Address Flash Player Zero-Day
Adobe on Tuesday released an out-of-band security update to address a critical security vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system....
View ArticleHere’s how to not get cyber screwed on Cyber Monday
‘Tis the seasons for getting monster deals online. But just because Cyber Monday lacks the threat of being trampled to death by a hoard of penny pinchers doesn’t mean you’re safe.
View ArticleHackers Break Into Server at St. Joseph Health System Putting 405,000 at Risk
Attack Exposes 405,000 Individuals at Texas Health Care Provider St. Joseph Health System (SJHS), a Bryan, Texas-based not-for-profit health care provider, said on Tuesday that between Dec. 16 and Dec....
View ArticleUS government also uses ‘Password’ for password
The report makes note of the use of “password,” but it cites other head-scratchers common within the federal system such as expired virus protection and security patches in need of updates.
View ArticleState Industrial Products Acknowledges Data Breach
Employee names, addresses, e-mail addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, birthdates and phone numbers were illegally accessed.
View ArticleSecurity Breach Exposes 14,000 Texas Students’ Personal Data
A laptop and hard drive containing the students’ names, birthdates and Social Security numbers were stolen from a district administrator’s car.
View ArticleBell Canada Hacked by NullCrew
22,241 e-mail addresses, user names and encrypted passwords were posted online.
View ArticleFIFA World Cup 2014: Malware, Phishing and 419 Scams
Security experts are seeing more and more cybercriminal operations that leverage the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Symantec experts have spotted malware attacks, phishing schemes and even Nigerian scams....
View ArticleSenate Cybersecurity Report Highlights Government Failures
Last January, hackers gained access to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers computers and downloaded a database full of information about the country’s 85,000 dams — including sensitive information about each...
View ArticleHow Did Medical Device Security Become a Problem?
If you’ve watched the news around medical device security and cybersecurity, you probably know that malicious hackers could kill you through your insulin pump.
View ArticleFear and Loathing in the Cloud
Don’t Reject Cloud Technology Out of Unfounded Fears… On a hot afternoon a number of years ago, I was sitting in a management training session as the session leader drew a chart on his whiteboard,...
View ArticleMany U.S. companies lax with data security: Illinois Atty General
U.S. companies that have fallen prey to hackers, exposing the private information of millions of customers, have often failed to take basic security precautions to protect client data, Illinois...
View Article4,794: Total Number of Vulnerabilities Reported in 2013
GFI Software has published a report on the vulnerabilities identified and reported in 2013 based on data from the National Vulnerability Database. The number of security holes reported in 2013 totaled...
View ArticleApplication Coding Errors Exacerbated by Misconfiguration: HP
The good news is the total number of new software vulnerabilities reported last year through November dropped six percent from what it was during the same period of 2012. The not-so good news is that...
View ArticleTarget Hackers Got Access from HVAC Company
According to Brian Krebs, the hackers stole login credentials from the HVAC systems company Fazio Mechanical Services.
View Article405,000 People Affected by St. Joseph Health System Data Breach
Patients’ and employees’ personal, medical and/or bank information may have been accessed by hackers.
View ArticleU.K. Government Launched DDoS Attacks on Anonymous
As F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen notes, this makes the U.K. the first Western government known to have launched DDoS attacks.
View ArticleWhite Lodging Lists Specific Hotels Affected by Recent Data Breach
The affected locations include Marriott, Holiday Inn, Sheraton, Westin, Renaissance and Radisson hotels.
View ArticleSyrian Electronic Army Claims Control Over Facebook.Com Domain
[Breaking] The Sryrian Electronic Army is claiming to have taken control over the domain Facebook.com, likely through hacking into the domain administrator account at the social network’s Domain...
View ArticleGCHQ reportedly infiltrated and attacked hacktivist groups
British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters has reportedly infiltrated hacktivist groups and used denial-of-service and other techniques to disrupt their online activities.
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