Auburn University Hacked
Almost 14,000 names and Social Security numbers may have been accessed.
View ArticleBasecamp Hit by Cyber Attack, Blackmail
Company co-founder David Heinemeir Hansson says the attackers demanded money to make the DDoS attack stop.
View ArticleCalifornia DMV Admits Credit Card Breach
A breach at the DMV’s credit card processor may have exposed customers’ card numbers, expiration dates and security codes.
View ArticleBasecamp Briefly Knocked Offline in DDoS Extortion Scheme
Basecamp has become the latest victim of DDoS extortion attempt by cybercriminals. Formerly 37Signals, Basecamp is behind the popular management tool of the same name. According to the company, its...
View ArticleHow To Secure Your WordPress Website From Hackers
Millions of websites are powered by WordPress software and there’s a reason for that.
View ArticleHealthcare Security: Where’s the Hype for HIPAA?
Every Time Technology is Used for the Greater Good, We Must Remember There is Also a Group of Malicious Opportunists Waiting to Pounce… I’ve written a good deal about hype in the past year or so, and...
View ArticleHealthcare Security: Where’s the Hype for HIPPA?
Every Time Technology is Used for the Greater Good, We Must Remember There is Also a Group of Malicious Opportunists Waiting to Pounce… I’ve written a good deal about hype in the past year or so, and...
View Articleauroracoin begins cryptocurrency ‘airdrop’ to whole of Iceland
The auroracoin digital handout could give Icelanders a new currency to trade between each other, but the country’s Central Bank has warned it would be illegal to use it to bypass the nation’s strict...
View ArticleToshiba’s Self-Encrypting Hard Drives Get FIPS 140-2 Stamp
Toshiba announced on Tuesday that its MQ01ABUxxxBW series hard disk drives (HDD) has achieved validation to U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2). Under certain regulations,...
View ArticleObama Proposes to End NSA Bulk Data Collection
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama is proposing to end the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk telephone data collection, exposed by fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. A...
View ArticlePhantom lonely women online were lures to victims of malware in February
China and the US were countries with the biggest spammers, but at 6th place, India could soon get that dubious top slot once internet penetration rates ramp up
View ArticleRobbing ATMs by SMS: Not in the real world
Why would anyone with the ability to execute Backdoor.Ploutus, which Symantec says is used to rob ATMs with text messages, bother with it?
View ArticleHacker black markets outbid IT companies in zero-day bidding The…
The Market for Cybercrime Tools and Stolen Data report, from thinktank Rand, found prices on both the black and grey markets much higher than the bounties companies pay to have bugs in their own...
View ArticleATM Hackers Turn to Text Messages to Pull Bank Heists
Cybercriminals may be texting their way past bank security. According to Symantec, a new variant of ATM malware discovered in 2013 has been updated to allow hackers to withdraw cash using SMS messages....
View ArticleWordPad: Workaround for Word woes?
Microsoft has not said whether WordPad, the free word processor included with Windows, is vulnerable to the zero day flaw announced yesterday in Microsoft Word.
View ArticleAddressing Cyberattacks via Positive Enforcement Model
Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole with Advanced Threats As more and more details about the Target breach have emerged, security experts, bloggers and media have focused on on why Target failed to react to...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s Secure Work Space for iOS and Android Gets FIPS 140-2 Certification
While BlackBerry may be struggling in the increasingly competitive smartphone market, the device maker has long had a reputation for robust security in its devices and communications platform. Today...
View ArticleTumblr Adds Two-Step Authentication to Ward Off Hackers
As a part of an effort to ramp up security efforts and keep away hackers, Tumblr is the latest company to add two-step authentication to its social blogging platform.
View ArticleShelburne Country Store Hacked
Customer names, addresses, credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates and verification numbers may have been accessed.
View ArticleBanks Sue Target, Trustwave Over Data Breach
The lawsuit alleges that vulnerabilities in Target’s systems were ‘either undetected or ignored by Trustwave.’
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