Hackers steal credit card data from millions of Michaels’ customers
Hackers breached the security of the arts and crafts retail chain Michaels and stole credit card data from almost three million Micheals’ customers, according to an April 17 report in ABCNews .
View ArticleSamsung’s fingerprint flop latest biometric cautionary tale
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 latest to signal that biometrics still not a solid answer on authentication
View ArticleKy. speaker: Hacker tweeted anti-McConnell remarks
Kentucky’s House speaker says someone hacked his Twitter account to post inflammatory comments about U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
View ArticleESET Launches Secure Authentication Software Development Kit
Security solutions provider ESET has announced the availability of the ESET Secure Authentication Software Development Kit (SDK), which enables companies to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to...
View ArticleSpammers Hijack Facebook Accounts with the Aid of Fake Chat Verification Posts
If you come across an announcement from the Facebook Chat Team, you should know that its part of a scam designed to trick users into giving spammers access to their accounts. All Chat Box must be...
View ArticleHow Heartbleed stirred up unease in our easy online lives
Early in the afternoon of April 7, a website called Heartbleed.com went live, warning the public of a devastating new security bug that affected two-thirds of the Internet’s servers.
View ArticleSophos Names Spam-Relaying “Dirty Dozen” Countries for Q1 2014
Sophos has published its Dirty Dozen spam report for the first quarter of 2014. The United States leads the countries by volume category and Belarus the countries by population category. In the first...
View ArticleHealthCare.gov users told to change passwords after government’s Heartbleed...
People who have accounts on the enrolmentwebsite for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law are being told to change their passwords following an administration-wide review of the...
View ArticleMaryland State Agencies Threatened by Cyberattacks
By Mike Denison, CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE Maryland government entities have suffered at least six cyberattacks since the beginning of 2013, according to incident reports from the Department of Information...
View ArticleMandiant Researchers: Heartbleed Attack Bypasses Multifactor Authentication,...
Attackers have developed a way to exploit Heartbleed in an SSL VPN, bypassing multifactor authentication to gain remote access to an organization’s internal network, according to researchers at...
View ArticleThis Is Bad: Heartbleed Attack Targets VPN Service
Most of the coverage of the Heartbleed bug has focused on the security problems for websites, but there’s another avenue of attack now being exploited by hackers: the Virtual Private Network systems...
View ArticleKaspersky Lab Names New North American Chief, Unveils Enterprise Security...
Kaspersky Lab Names Chris Doggett as Managing Director, North America SAN FRANCISCO – Kaspersky Lab announced major leadership changes to its North American operations this week, while at the same time...
View ArticleTeen charged with hacking into friend’s Facebook account to threaten girl...
A 15-year-old Dickinson Township male has been charged with hacking into a friend’s Facebook account to threaten a 15-year-old girl with rape earlier this month, North Middleton Township police report.
View ArticleRUMOR: Xbox One hacked for Homebrew?
A chat log that comes from the EFnet lobby #xbonehack has Xboner’s claiming next-gen victory Old-time sceners have been chatting recently, and they saying its basically GAME OVER for Microsoft, the...
View ArticleIs Data Hoarding Necessary for Lawful Surveillance?
The NSA’s mass surveillance activities, including the collection of billions of U.S. cell phone records every day , have sparked vigorous debate about whether such surveillance is legal, consistent...
View ArticleEnsuring security in the digital age
With more and more transactions taking place online, consumers and businesses must be increasingly vigilant about possible security threats stemming from electronic commerce.
View ArticleNew technologies to improve consumers’ account information
Recent high-profile data breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus have accelerated plans by banks and retailers to implement technologies they say will prevent hackers from stealing consumers’ account...
View ArticleHackers of Oman News Agency Target Bouteflika
MUSCAT – Hackers on Sunday targeted the website of Oman’s official news agency, singling out and mocking Algeria’s newly re-elected president Abdelaziz Bouteflika as a handicapped “dictator”. Oman News...
View ArticleChina’s Shadow to Follow Obama Around Asia – Analysis
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will not visit China on his Asia tour next week, but its broadening shadow will be cast everywhere he goes at a time of complex regional disputes and questions about...
View Articleemt and Catbird offer security products for virtualisation
Catbird’s virtualisation security solutions portfolio includes a complete range of solutions that can protect virtual environments from internal and external threats, replace multiple physical security...
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