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A hacker has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability in the website of the Internet Archive project, which exposed sensitive information about registered members. The leaked data included personal details such as the e-mail address, names, home address, zip, city and state. The vulnerability was discovered and repo... |
22 September 2009
06:00 GMT |
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RideMatch.info, a website used by several California-based companies and transportation boards to match commuters on similar routes, has been exposed by a security expert as being vulnerable to massive SQL injections that will result in the disclosure of user personal data, CyberInsecure reports. Among the companies ... |
11 September 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Shipping giant UPS has decided to encrypt all digital data stored on company mobile devices and laptops after a serious data leakage that occurred in October 2008. This measure was announced at the beginning of August 2009 and will affect only the United Kingdom branch of the company.This measure was put into place a... |
17 August 2009
10:21 GMT |
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The percent of companies that monitor outbound emails has risen with more than 50% from its 2008 value, study says. ProofPoint, a data-loss prevention company, has issued its annual study based on 220 company surveys from various fields of activity. The study shows that, in a shaky economical environment, data leak ... |
15 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Romanian grey-hat hacker Unu has hit the Daily Telegraph website for a second time in under three months and says that the impact of the new vulnerability he found is much more serious than last time. According to the hacker, the weakness allows for the execution of an SQL injection attack and the extraction of the p... |
29 May 2009
04:47 GMT |
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A two-terabyte external hard drive containing Clinton Administration Presidential and federal records went missing from The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The agency is offering $50,000 for information leading to its return. The Western Digital MY BOOK drive was last seen between October 2008 a... |
22 May 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Celebrity media reports that Oscar-nominated actress Salma Hayek had her MobileMe e-mail account hacked into. The perpetrators published screenshots of the contained personal messages, revealing interesting aspects of her daily life. The actress, highly acclaimed for her role as Frida Kahlo in the movie with the sam... |
27 April 2009
03:27 GMT |
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A recent phishing scam gone bad exposes stolen online banking login credentials. Researchers from anti-virus vendor Sophos have discovered that the dump server used by the cyber-criminals behind the operation lacks even the most basic protection mechanisms. Analysts from the SophosLabs branch in Sydney have come acr... |
3 April 2009
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The Internet's top whistleblowing website, Wikileaks, has been faced with a though decision, as someone submitted for publishing a partial list containing the e-mail addresses of its own donors. The web archive administrators eventually published it. Wikileaks specializes in the publishing of sensitive and secr... |
19 February 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The project website of one of the most popular open source bulletin boards, phpBB, has suffered a major security breach that has resulted in the exposure of 400,000 e-mail addresses. A hacker has obtained access to both the forum and mailing list databases by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the PHPlist newsl... |
5 February 2009
04:11 GMT |
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Journalists from the Frankfurter Rundschau (German) magazine had a shock when they examined the contents of a strange cardboard box sent to their office. It contained credit card bills and detailed banking information, including PIN numbers, that were stored on microfilm. The extensive data that should have been con... |
15 December 2008
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Express Scripts, a leading pharmacy benefit management company in the U.S. and Canada, announced that the extortionist(s) who sent them a threat letter in October moved down the foodchain and are now targeting their smaller business partners through similar tactics. As a result, the company decided to fight back and ... |
13 November 2008
09:23 GMT |
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The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has launched an internal investigation after finding out that a USB stick containing account details was lost. The bank informed the affected customers and placed the accounts under supervision for suspicious activity.According to the bank, a single employee was responsible for the incident ... |
6 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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FOX News reports that the network of the World Bank Group suffered several security breaches in the past year and a half, but a World Bank spokesman dismissed the story. According to a leaked memo, a serious security breach occurred in July and resulted in at least 18 servers being compromised.The World Bank Group (W... |
13 October 2008
10:11 GMT |
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The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit organization that tracks data breaches in U.S., reported 516 incidents that resulted in a total of over 30 million personal records being compromised so far in 2008, out of which 97.5% were electronically stored.The ITRC gathers the reports from various media sou... |
7 October 2008
10:21 GMT |
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The German mobile phone services operator T-Mobile has admitted losing the personal details of 17 million of its customers. Even though the incident happened in early 2006, the company only mentioned it last Saturday due to an article published in the German magazine Der Spiegel.The information included customers&rsq... |
6 October 2008
09:53 GMT |
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Christopher Boyd, Director of Malware Research for FaceTime Security Labs and Microsoft Security MVP, has come across a security flaw on the popular free image hosting service ImageShack through which anyone could have downloaded the log file associated with any image. Such a log file contains the IP address which wa... |
29 September 2008
10:16 GMT |
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has to deal with yet another sensitive information data leak incident. According to the Daily Mail, three portable storage devices containing the personal information of up to 50,000 retired and active military personnel have been stolen from the RAF Innsworth base in Gloucestershire.... |
29 September 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Users reported on Monday, according to The Register, that The Aberdeen Press and Journal website made public personal information of its registered members, through a simple URL manipulation. By simply changing a value in a URL, one could read sensitive information like the real name, home address, e-mail address and... |
2 September 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Larry Mendte, who used to work as a news presenter for a Philadelphia TV station, somehow managed to gain access to the e-mail of his co-presenter, Alycia Lane. The information he had access to for a period in excess of two years was later on leaked to abloids and resulted in Lane's downfall. Since the start of ... |
22 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Recently, the DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky made all the headlines, first of all because of its gravity, and secondly because the Director of Penetration Testing for IOActive would not release specific, technical details about the flaw. Kaminsky stated on numerous occasions that he would disclose all the inform... |
22 July 2008
05:41 GMT |
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While in China earlier this year, a senior adviser to Gordon Brown, who has yet to be named, managed to have his Blackberry device stolen after spending the night with a Chinese woman that approached him in a night-club in Shanghai. Although data loss incidents are quite common in the UK lately, the only punitive mea... |
21 July 2008
11:00 GMT |
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During a speech held last week at Purdue University, Senator Barack Obama has stated that the future administration must take cybercriminals just as seriously as it does terrorists. A terrorist hacker attack could put the computer networks all over the US in jeopardy, and that is why cybersecurity will be a top prior... |
21 July 2008
04:41 GMT |
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The UK has recently proposed the creation of a so-called "super database" with the purpose of logging information about every telephone call, text message, and e-mail sent. The thing is that, over the past four years, from 2004 up to this day, the MoD (Ministry of Defense) has officially admitted to losing a total of... |
19 July 2008
04:39 GMT |
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The person in question is 23-year-old Andrew Kellett from Swarcliffe, West Yorkshire, who uploaded to popular web page YouTube a total of 80 videos, where he can be seen doing illegal acts, such as consuming class A drugs and racing cars at speeds in excess of 120mph. The punishment given to him by Judge Christopher ... |
18 July 2008
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It has recently come to light that by signing up to Google Calendar, one can find out the name used to register any Gmail account. This is a serious issue for those who have used their real names, but prefer the information stays private. The thing is that by getting access to such data, a spammer can deliver a pers... |
17 July 2008
11:36 GMT |
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According to a recently released study conducted by The Strategic Counsel and sponsored by CA, company that specializes in providing IT management software solutions, while external security threats are going down, insider related ones are increasing. In the last year alone, consumer discontent in regard to data loss... |
17 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Facebook has failed to provide the necessary security measures for the users that have specifically requested that information provided by them remains private. According to Sophos, company that specializes in providing antivirus and antispam security solutions, Facebook has accidentally made public the birth dates ... |
16 July 2008
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According to Trend Micro, company that specializes in providing Internet security solutions, social networking sites are a security threat not only to the user, but also to the company's network. This is because a lager and larger number of people access such sites from their workplace, using the PC and Internet... |
15 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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For people who are always on the go, a laptop is a must-have piece of technology. The thing is that it can be lost, not to mention stolen, incredibly easily. And once that happens, you also lose all the data stored on it (which sometimes can be private, confidential information that you don't want others to loo... |
15 July 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Effective today, the Open Security Foundation (OSF) will take over maintenance responsibilities for Attrition.org's DataLossDB. The OSF is a non-profit organization run by IT security buffs, while DataLossDB is an ongoing project aimed at collecting worldwide info in regard to data loss incidents. Jake Kouns, C... |
15 July 2008
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There was a time when a hacker could steal your bank info and sell it for as much as $100. But according to Finjan, a company that specializes in providing Internet gateway solutions, that price has gone down to $10-$20 because the offer has soared while the demand remained relatively the same.Finjan has recently re... |
15 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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The IT security world continues to be plagued by data loss incidents; laptops with confidential data are stolen or lost on airports, disks are gone, USB memory devices are misplaced, and so on. According to Blue Chip Technologies, amongst all the things that cause data to be lost, human error accounts for 26% of it ... |
14 July 2008
10:44 GMT |
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It has recently come to light that Apple Developer Connection simply gave away the password to Marko Karppinen's account. He is the CEO of MK&C, a software development studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which designs and develops Mac software. How could such a thing happen? Well, it seems that all the scammer ha... |
10 July 2008
04:16 GMT |
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It would seem that in order to make a few bucks the Russian hackers are not satisfied with the traditional means anymore and are turning to recruitment sites. A nice profit can be made by harvesting all that information and then selling it to interested parties on the black market. The group of hackers responsible fo... |
9 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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Chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Lord Broers draws attention to the fact that UK legislation has serious deficiencies in terms of security. The British Government must take action with regard to three major issues: there is a need for a law that will force organizations to report any data... |
9 July 2008
07:46 GMT |
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The Daily Mail, part of Northcliffe Media, has recently announced that one of the organization's laptops was stolen. It contained information on its employers, suppliers and collaborators, such as name, address, and bank info. The data loss is serious in that it is an identity theft risk, but it is at the same ... |
8 July 2008
03:09 GMT |
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According to a study conducted by Trend Micro, a company that specializes in providing flexible and customizable Internet security solutions, data leaks are rapidly becoming a security threat similar to that of viruses and malware. The study was conducted on 1,600 corporate PC users and it shows that the most affect... |
8 July 2008
02:11 GMT |
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Google is not to blame for this, because the data was not stolen from Google offices but from the headquarters of an outsourced HR company called Colt Express. The thieves broke in and stole company computers that contained unencrypted data on them, data such as name, address, Social Security number, basically every... |
4 July 2008
13:16 GMT |
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A recently published study entitled "Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops" conducted by Dell and the Ponemon Institute brought to light the fact that about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports on a weekly basis, in America alone. The study gathered information from 106 major airports in the US. Out of all thos... |
3 July 2008
09:58 GMT |
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According to the Japanese Self Defense Force, two officers lost a USB device containing information on a military exercise that was a joint venture of the Japanese and the US military that took place in western Japan in February 2007; the memory stick had maps concerning unit deployment on it. The officers responsibl... |
3 July 2008
08:40 GMT |
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Atul Mahotra joined the HP team two years ago, in May 2006, as VP (short for vice president) of the printing division. After just four months he was fired after he was accused of leaking private information from IBM, his previous employer, to his current employer. Mahotra was brought to justice and the San Jose court... |
3 July 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Security of personal data is an issue with which all major institutions must deal. With an increasing number of phishing frauds available on the web, the users' personal data are not that safe anymore. A recent incident demonstrated that the people of Chile are among the most vulnerable. According to the El Merc... |
12 May 2008
08:20 GMT |
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Most of us would expect an award wining company like Renault not to have any issues with security on their websites. But it appears some of our expectations are rather too high, as proven by an incident that occurred last week. One of the company's websites, namely the one in Great Britain, hosted a Grand Prix c... |
12 May 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Not very long ago, there was a lawsuit that had Google on the seat of the accused, over a very complicated, yet very plain issue. The plaintiff claimed that he was in danger of being a victim of identity theft because the name of the Mountain View-based company was actually his Social Security number looked at upside... |
29 February 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Nothing surprises me anymore. Hackers will just send out viruses wherever they can, reagardless of who they may attack. As the latest cases show, these guys are stooping very low. Such is the case of The Nature Conservancy - after a recent attack on sensitive info belonging to about 14.000 people had leaked. Naturall... |
3 October 2007
08:46 GMT |
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Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is an international computer service company. They specialize in payroll processing, but offer various other services as well, such as human resources, screening and selection services and others. They sit on huge databases and recently, there has been news of one of them getting hacke... |
17 September 2007
10:22 GMT |
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Now, here's a bizarre case of data breaching for you. The TD Ameritrade Company had a huge database with sensitive information belonging to clients. And when I say huge, I mean 6.3 million accounts. Hackers broke into it using the classic backdoor tactic, so what was weird in that? Well, the fishy part was that ... |
17 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Sure, it's great to deploy all sorts of programs on your machine/s in order to enforce security; but in some cases, one tool can be pretty much useless. Not completely, but it won't do the thing that you really need. And this is really true when talking about ant-data-leakage programs.What do you expect the... |
12 September 2007
04:47 GMT |
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a material about embassies having low security. Security expert Dan Egerstad has disclosed a vulnerability back then and just to show them that their system was flawed, he posted their e-mail passwords online (where exactly it is not known). And we are talking about more than 100 cases h... |
11 September 2007
10:56 GMT |
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