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Security vendor Trusteer warns about a file infector which in the past several weeks has begun to transition towards stealing financial information.Dubbed Ramnit, the virus was first discovered in 2010 and infects executable and HTML files in order to spread. It also copies itself to removable drives and opens a back... |
26 August 2011
12:54 GMT |
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Security giant McAfee has released a report revealing that a single entity has compromised over 76 organizations during the past five years with the intention of stealing intellectual property.McAfee began investigating Operation Shady RAT, its name for the massive cyber espionage effort, back in 2006. Since then the... |
3 August 2011
10:48 GMT |
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A 24-year-old programmer and online activist was indicted for stealing over four million academic papers and journals from a not-for-profit archive service.Aaron Swartz, a respected researcher with Harvard University's Center for Ethics and founder of the Demand Progress political action group, is accused of bre... |
20 July 2011
09:09 GMT |
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Hackers have managed to break into servers belonging to Eidos Interactive, a reputed game publisher now owned by Square Enix, and stole sensitive data.The hackers who instrumented the attack seem to be affiliated with the so-called Anonymous splinter group that recently took over AnonOps, the hacktivist collective�... |
13 May 2011
11:56 GMT |
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In a blog post clarifying some recent Terms of Service (TOS) changes, Dropbox also promises to make it impossible for attackers to steal the host_id from one computer and access the associated account on another.Earlier this month, security expert Derek Newton revealed that hackers can easily download all files in pe... |
22 April 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is accusing one of its former managers of breaking a non-competition agreement and leaving the company with around 600 MB in confidential information.Last month, the software giant sued Matt Miszewski, a former market development manager with its CRM and online services division, in order to prevent him fro... |
14 February 2011
00:51 GMT |
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A 23-years hacker received a suspended prison sentence this week in UK after impersonating a student to access university computers and infect them with malware.Daniel Woo, a Bulgarian national living in Hans Crescent, South West London, was caught and arrested on November 1, 2006 as he was tampering with computers a... |
26 November 2010
09:58 GMT |
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A security researcher demoed at the Black Hat security conference how the AutoComplete function in older versions of Internet Explorer can be abused to steal sensitive information about users. The attack involves tricking victims into visiting a maliciously crafted website.AutoComplete is a feature that has been pres... |
30 July 2010
05:56 GMT |
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According to reports in local media the email addresses, passwords and personal information of over 100,000 Israelis is being shared on Turkish hacking forums. Apparently, they were lifted from compromised websites in the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla raid earlier this year.The data breach was originally reported (i... |
19 July 2010
03:37 GMT |
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Researchers from a security company have uncovered that a variant of the Zeus trojan has actively been used to siphon sensitive information from 2,500 organizations during the past two years. Dubbed the "Kneber botnet," the network of compromised computers spanning almost 200 countries is being controlled from server... |
18 February 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile UK has recently admitted that some of its employees have sold customer data to one of the rival networks in the country. The operator announced the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and the two entities have been investigating together the allegations. The data sold is... |
18 November 2009
04:16 GMT |
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A new study committed by Intel has revealed that companies lose a tremendous amount of money with each laptop they give to employees that gets lost, irretrievably damaged, or stolen. On average, alongside the costs of the machine itself, each firm loses $49,246 in lost data, sensitive company information, account det... |
24 April 2009
04:51 GMT |
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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is in the process of notifying around 80,000 active and retired police officers that their personal information has been compromised. One employee from the New York City Police Pension Fund (NYCPPF) has been arrested for stealing tapes containing the records. According to t... |
6 March 2009
08:20 GMT |
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Notifications from credit unions, banking associations and other various groups point to a big data breach that has not yet been disclosed to the general public. The affected processor has not been named, but, according to the available information, a significant number of accounts have been compromised. The reports... |
26 February 2009
08:04 GMT |
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A new study conducted on US workers reveals that 60 percent of them steal private company data when they leave or are thrown out of their jobs, and that most of that information gets used for various purposes. The percentage has been put forth after a new research by the Ponemon Institute, which conducted its survey ... |
23 February 2009
09:59 GMT |
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued a press release announcing a serious data theft incident on one of its servers. The agency is in the process of notifying some 45,000 employees, whose personal details have been electronically stolen. The Federal Aviation Administration is part of the U.S. Departme... |
12 February 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Some people, when selling their old computers will erase everything on their hard drives. This is a pretty good security measure if you don't want others to get a hold of your data. Thing is, this will just prevent some users from accessing your data, and not all of them. The ones that are really tech-savvy can ... |
17 September 2007
08:21 GMT |
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