Sears looks for possible breach as Secret Service said to assist
Sears, the retailer run by hedge fund manager Edward Lampert, is investigating a possible security breach after a series of cyberattacks on other retailers have exposed the data of millions of consumers.
View ArticleAzeri Hackers Attack Around 300 Armenian Sites Over Night – Expert
AZERI HACKERS ATTACK AROUND 300 ARMENIAN SITES OVER NIGHT – EXPERT Interfax, Russia Feb 27 2014 YEREVAN.
View ArticleDoxxing victim: “This isn’t about porn, this is about humiliation”
A woman talks to Salon about the painful reality of being targeted online by men who get off on demeaning women Twenty-two-year-old “Elizabeth” often finds herself wondering, “How many men are abusing...
View ArticleWhy Do People Fall for Online Scams?
Online scams have been around ever since people started using the Internet. After numerous advisories, alerts, and awareness-raising campaigns, youd think that most people would have learned not to...
View ArticleRussian news site RT.com hacked to replace ‘Russian’ with ‘Nazi’
At about 11 p.m. EST Saturday, hackers compromised RT’s homepage and changed most instances of the word “Russian” to the word “Nazi.”
View ArticleLas Vegas Sands: Customer data stolen during recent attack
The data of thousands of customers has been stolen from Las Vegas Sands’ Bethlehem property in Pennsylvania during a cyber-attack last month.
View ArticleHow to Respond to a Data Breach
Here are three do’s and two don’ts for responding to a data breach.
View ArticleNetflix Phishing Scam Used to Trick People into Calling Tech Support Scammers
Security experts have come across a Netflix phishing scam that not only tricks users into handing over their credentials, but also instructs victims to call tech support scammers. Tech support scams...
View Article10 easy ways to protect yourself from online hackers
Anyone who goes online can be hacked. “It’s all about numbers,” expert Redvers Davies said of hackers.
View ArticleNeutrino Exploit Kit Reportedly Put Up for Sale by Its Author
The author of the Neutrino exploit kit has reportedly decided to sell his creation. The reason: he says he doesnt have time to deal with customer support, accepting payments and the other activities...
View ArticleBritish Shadow Home Secretary Calls for Cyber Security and Privacy Reform
British Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is holding a speech today to call for reform in the fields of cyber security and privacy in an effort to help law enforcement and intelligence agencies, but...
View ArticleMeetup Down for Days Due to DDOS Attack Allegedly Ordered by a Competitor
The website of Meetup (meetup.com), the social networking portal that facilitates real world meetings between its members, has been hit with a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The...
View ArticleFlaw in Yahoo! Suggestions Allowed Hackers to Delete 1.5 Million Posts and...
Ibrahim Raafat, a security researcher from Egypt, has uncovered a vulnerability in Yahoo! Suggestions that could have been exploited by a malicious actor to delete all 365,000 posts and 1,155,000...
View ArticleRSA Conference Draws 28,500 Attendees
Those boycotting this year’s RSA Conference over the controversy that RSA accepted $10 million from the NSA to ensure a vulnerable encryption algorithm was used by default in RSA’s BSAFE toolkit had...
View ArticleSymantec Names New Chief Financial Officer
Thomas Seifert Appointed CFO At Symantec Symantec has appointed Thomas Seifert as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective March 17. Seifert will report to Symantec president and...
View ArticleVaronis Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Varonis Systems, a provider data governance and protection software for enterprises, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 4.8 million shares of its common stock at a price to the...
View ArticleWebsite of International Video News Agency Ruptly Hit With DDOS Attack
Moments ago, the Ruptly international video news agency, which is part of the RT (Russia Today) global news network, announced that its website is under a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack....
View ArticleHacker Holds Meetup.com Hostage – for $300?
Meetup has been hit by a DDoS attack that may be linked to an email-based extortion demand demanding $300 to spare the company from being hacked.
View ArticleScam Alert: Reclaim Your Lost Mt.Gox Bitcoins
Many people have been impacted by the downfall of Mt. Gox, the worlds largest Bitcoin exchange. Cybercriminals are counting on this to trick users into installing malicious software. It all starts with...
View ArticleEverything I know about computer security I learned in kindergarten
After more than 25 years as a computer security consultant, I’ve learned that the “secret” to good computer security is to do the simple things that we all know we should be doing better.
View Article