Target breach puts corporate tech execs under fire
Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually assaulting a captain under his command with whom he had a three-year affair.
View ArticleStatistics Company Statista Hacked, Email Addresses and Passwords Possibly...
Statista, the company that provides statistics and studies from over 18,000 sources, has been hacked. The company believes the hackers could have accessed its user database. In an email sent out to...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins University Breached, Blackmailed by Anonymous Hackers
Earlier this week, some Anonymous hackers claimed to have breached into the systems of John Hopkins University. The educational institution admits that its systems have been breached. The hackers...
View ArticleFlorida schools would benefit with biometric ID
The Florida Senate ‘s Criminal Justice Committee’s 5-1 vote last month to ban biometrics in all schools lacks common sense and denies schools the opportunity to improve safety, standards and fiscal...
View ArticleRussia Suspected of Helping Iran Develop Its Cyber Capabilities, Lawmakers Hear
In a hearing on Irans support for terrorism worldwide before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittees on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, Pete Hoekstra revealed the fact that Russia was suspected...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-FireEye prices secondary offering at $82 per share
Network security company FireEye Inc and its investors sold a second round of shares to the public on Friday to finance expansion and cash in on enthusiasm for its offerings.
View Article‘Snake’ Cyber-Espionage Malware Slithered Around Web for Years
Security researchers have dug deeper into the Snake malware found to be involved in cyber-attacks against targets in the Ukraine. According to new research from BAE Systems, the cyber-espionage toolkit...
View ArticleFBI Names Robert Anderson Jr. to Head Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services...
The FBI has named Robert Anderson, Jr. as the executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch (CCRSB) at FBI Headquarters. According to a Mar. 7 announcement,...
View ArticleData Breach at Statista Affects 50,000 Users
The company says hackers accessed customers’ e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords.
View ArticleVisa and MasterCard Determined to Enhance Payment Security
A new cross-industry group that focuses on enhancing the security of payment systems in the United States was announced last week by Visa and MasterCard. The new groups main goal is the introduction of...
View ArticleNorth Dakota University System Hacked
The names and Social Security numbers of 290,000 students and 780 faculty and staff members may have been accessed.
View ArticleUkraine’s Computers Targeted by Powerful Malware: Experts
LONDON – Dozens of computer networks in Ukraine have been infected by an aggressive new cyber weapon called Snake, according to expert analysis. The cyber weapon has been increasingly used since the...
View ArticleApple iOS 7.1 patches 41 vulnerabilities
Dozens of fixes address many serious bugs, courtesy of Google, jailbreakers and others. Also, a jailbreak for iOS 7.1 is available.
View ArticleIowa DHS Acknowledges Data Breach
2,042 names, mailing addresses, Social Security numbers, birthdates, health information and abuse incident information may have been exposed.
View ArticleCybercriminals Entrenched in ‘Dark Web’: Researchers
WASHINGTON – Cybercriminals are settling into a comfortable place in the “Dark Web” where they test, refine and distribute malware for online thievery. That’s the conclusion of researchers at McAfee,...
View ArticleBitcoin or Bust? UCSB Scholars Dissect Popular – and Polarizing – Digital...
Depending on whom you ask or what you read – and when – bitcoin, the so-called “cryptocurrency,” is either days from extinction or destined to give central banking a run for its money.
View ArticleCyberSense Lands $5 Million in Series A Funding
CyberSense, a security startup providing of cloud-based and on-premises threat detection solutions, recently announced that it has received $5 million in Series A funding. CyberSense is yet another...
View Article162,000 WordPress Sites Abused to Amplify DDOS Attack
Sucuri has been called in to mitigate a major distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack aimed at a popular WordPress site. Whats interesting about this incident is that 162,000 other WordPress sites...
View ArticleShots Fired: Apple taunts jailbreak hackers by thanking them for finding big...
It could be quite some time before Apple’s latest mobile software release, iOS 7.1 , is jailbroken.
View Article66% of Top UK e-Commerce Websites Allow Users to Set Weak Passwords
After examining the password policies of the top 100 e-commerce websites in France and the United States, Dashlane has also reviewed the most popular sites in the United Kingdom. Internet users will...
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