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Officials of the Manchester City football club believe that the secret database they use for scouting players might have been hacked by a rival club.
According to The Mirror, Manchester City suspects that its database from the online performance analysis system called Scout7 has been compromised.
Representatives of... |
19 June 2013
03:17 GMT |
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The University of Michigan is contacting 33,000 individuals whose personal information might have been compromised after hackers gained access to the systems of a third-party company. According to a statement posted by Vendini, the third party in question, it detected a security breach on April 25. Vendini offers ... |
17 June 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Guccifer, the hacker who has become famous after hacking into the online accounts of several celebrities and government officials, has breached the Facebook and email accounts of Neile Miller, acting administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). According to The Smoking Gun, it doesn&r... |
17 June 2013
11:17 GMT |
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Three Purdue University students have been charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors after the educational institution discovered that they hacked into their professors’ accounts to change their grades.
Two of them – Mitsutoshi Shirasaki, an aeronautics and astronautics major from Japan, and Sujay ... |
17 June 2013
10:23 GMT |
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Back in May, it was revealed that the US Department of Justice was secretly monitoring the communications of Associated Press and Fox News reporters. CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson also said her computer was compromised. At the time, she didn’t provide too many details, but now CBS News has confirmed ... |
15 June 2013
03:43 GMT |
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Hackers are suspected of compromising a number of 25-30 Axis Bank accounts. 14 of them are salary accounts of police officers in Mumbai, India.
The money from the compromised bank accounts has been withdrawn in Euros at ATMs in Greece. Authorities believe that hackers somehow stole the victims’ financial infor... |
14 June 2013
07:47 GMT |
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Pink and Carey Hart have long made known their stand on how the paparazzi operate and the boundaries they’re willing to cross just to get their “money shot.” This recent incident isn’t about to change their mind on that.
The two were with their daughter Willow at the Malibu Country Mart the ... |
13 June 2013
10:52 GMT |
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The other day, word got out that rapper 2 Chainz was the victim of an armed robbery in San Francisco and that, to make matters worse, all the members of his entourage ran “like cockroaches” when they realized the danger. On Twitter, 2 Chainz is setting the record straight by hinting that the incident ne... |
11 June 2013
07:59 GMT |
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It’s well known that most telecoms companies record the phone calls their customers make. However, these calls should never be made public, especially since in many cases, they can contain sensitive information.
The Age reports that Australian telecoms services provider IF Telecom inadvertently made public a n... |
10 June 2013
09:35 GMT |
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An Israeli hacker that uses the online moniker Yourikan claims to have penetrated the systems of Iran Airtour Airlines (iranairtours.ir), a Teheran-based airline that’s a subsidiary of Iran Air.
The hacker has told Cyber War News that he has deleted data from the organization’s systems, causing maj... |
10 June 2013
08:51 GMT |
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Last week, Denmark’s national police revealed that, in the summer of 2012, hackers might have stolen and modified information from the police driving license register, including the personal identity number register (CPR).
Politiken.dk reports that the hackers retrieved CPR information, and details of individu... |
10 June 2013
03:31 GMT |
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John Malkovich is being hailed as a hero after he helped save an Ohio man’s life after he tripped, fell, and cut his throat. The actor was on a cigarette break when this happened, but he didn’t hesitate to come to his rescue.
Jim Walpole, 77, and his wife Marilyn, 79, from Ohio were on vacation; they we... |
9 June 2013
03:21 GMT |
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The strangest thing happened on the season finale of Britain’s Got Talent last night, when a woman rushed on stage in the middle of the performance of opera singers Richard and Adam Johnson and started throwing eggs at the judges – at Simon Cowell, in particular.
A low-quality video of the incident is b... |
9 June 2013
01:54 GMT |
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Raley’s Supermarkets, also known as the Raley's Family of Fine Stores, has published a statement to notify customers that its computer systems were targeted in a “complex” cyberattack.
The company is still investigating the incident, but so far, there’s no evidence that customer credit a... |
7 June 2013
16:01 GMT |
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For someone who seems to simply bask in the spotlight at all times, not just on the red carpet, Justin Bieber sure has moments when he’s incredibly camera-shy. One such moment occurred the other day in Miami.
He noticed a paparazzo was taking photos of him and his entourage as he was leaving The Hit Factory r... |
7 June 2013
15:41 GMT |
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Germany-based web hosting provider Hetzner has started notifying customers that their data might have been compromised. Last week, the company discovered a previously unknown piece of malware in its internal monitoring systems.
According to company founder Martin Hetzner, the backdoor they’ve discovered is dif... |
7 June 2013
09:19 GMT |
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has fined the Halton Borough Council in Cheshire with £70,000 ($107,000 / €82,000) for sending the details of adoptive parents to a child’s birth family.
The incident occurred on May 25, 2012, when an employee of the council sent a letter about ... |
6 June 2013
05:30 GMT |
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Symantec and the Ponemon Institute have published the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, a report which analyzes the losses recorded by organizations that have suffered breaches.
The study – which is based on feedback from 277 companies from nine countries – shows that the average cost of d... |
5 June 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Clients of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) Center for Language, Speech and Hearing are being notified after a malicious program was identified on a workstation. The malware might have compromised protected health information.
According to the university, the infection was detected on April 5,... |
5 June 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Earlier this week, we learned that cybercriminals launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the systems of DNSimple and easyDNS. The attacks have been mitigated and both companies have published blog posts to explain what happened. As it turns out, the DNS providers were not the targets of these ... |
5 June 2013
03:24 GMT |
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Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has started notifying customers that their credit card details might have been compromised.
According to the security breach notice sent out to customers (via eSecurity Planet), cybercriminals planted malware on the hotel’s systems as early as June 18, 2012.... |
4 June 2013
03:48 GMT |
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DNSimple, a hosted DNS service that allows users to easily manage their domains, is currently being hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack.
The first reports about a DDOS attack came from the company on May 31. Around one hour ago, DNSimple said it was experiencing a “significantly larger... |
3 June 2013
09:46 GMT |
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a fine of £100,000 ($152,000 / €117,000) after it discovered a large number of patient records at a site formerly owned by Stockport Primary Care Trust.
Stockport Primary Care Trust was dissolved earlier this year and their legal resp... |
3 June 2013
08:05 GMT |
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5,682 patients and parents of patients at the UF Pediatric Primary Care Clinic at Tower Square are being notified by the University of Florida (UF) to take measures to protect themselves against identity theft.
The notification comes after the university discovered that an employee working at one of its medical pra... |
31 May 2013
10:13 GMT |
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The Twitter account and the website of the White House Press Corps appear to have been hijacked by a hacker who’s upset with the media organizations that attended the off-the-record meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder. “RESOLVED: Any Member of any ‘News’ Organization that met with AG H... |
31 May 2013
09:26 GMT |
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The hacker group known as the Rustle League appears to have taken over two major hacktivist Twitter accounts: @PLF2012, which is the official account of the Peoples Liberation Front, and @YourAnonNews, the biggest Anonymous-supporting news network.
The hackers say that they’re “plunging” the ... |
31 May 2013
05:29 GMT |
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The Idaho State University (ISU) operates 29 outpatient clinics where it is responsible for securing health information technology systems.
The university has agreed to pay a $400,000 (€306,000) fine to the US Department of Heath Human Services (HHS) after exposing the details of around 17,500 patients of... |
31 May 2013
05:10 GMT |
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Shumsky, an Ohio-based promotional marketing company, is notifying customers about a data breach on the company’s e-commerce platform, eSecurity Planet reports.
The notification letter sent out to impacted clients reveals that the attackers accessed the records of 1,400 individuals. The exposed information con... |
31 May 2013
03:28 GMT |
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A vulnerability in third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure has allowed cybercriminals to gain access to account information from drupal.org and groups.drupal.org.
According to an announcement from Drupal representatives, the incident isn’t a result of a vulnerability in Drupal it... |
30 May 2013
03:15 GMT |
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Secunia’s Vulnerability Coordination Reward Program (SVCRP) is used by many security researchers because it offers an efficient way to responsibly disclose security holes. However, because of an error, a couple of vulnerabilities reported to Secunia ended up on a public mailing list.
According to SecurityWeek,... |
29 May 2013
04:49 GMT |
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Melissa McCarthy is now directing a new film with her husband. While on set in Wilmington, NC, the star noticed that one of the extras who had also brought along her child for the day, was yelling and mistreating the kid.
TMZ reports that the 4 or 5-year-old child didn’t exactly appreciate the commotion and w... |
22 May 2013
04:33 GMT |
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Sometimes, getting to sit front row or in the pit at an awards show might be the best place to be because, if you’re lucky, you might even get to shake / touch hands with your idol. Not the same goes for two female fans at the Billboard Music Awards 2013.
During his performance, Miguel decided to jump over a ... |
20 May 2013
05:14 GMT |
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A few hours ago, the following tweet was posted from the official Sky News Newsdesk Twitter account: “Colin was here.”
Twitter users didn’t appear to be surprised by the message, considering that the Twitter accounts of numerous major media organizations were hijacked in the past period by the Syri... |
14 May 2013
08:22 GMT |
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The Internet is full of tutorials on how to hack road signs, and it appears some people are putting them to good use. The latest incident occurred in Florida, where a portable traffic sign was hacked to display “Smoke weed erryday.” According to the Orlando Sentinel, a number of people stopped to take pi... |
14 May 2013
02:42 GMT |
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Reporters from the famous multinational mass media corporation Bloomberg are accused of using the company’s financial data terminal to spy on individuals that use the service for market news and trading information.
The news came to light after Goldman Sachs representatives started complaining about the fact ... |
13 May 2013
05:19 GMT |
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Last week, US authorities charged 8 individuals believed to be involved in a scheme in which fraudsters withdrew a total of $45 million (€34 million) from ATMs all around the world. Prosecutors haven’t named the targeted companies. However, Times of India has learned that the companies targeted by the cyb... |
13 May 2013
04:38 GMT |
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Hackers of the Turkish Ajan collective claim to have breached the website of the police department of the City of Mobile, Alabama, United States (mobilepd.org).
They haven’t caused any damage to the website itself, but they’ve leaked an archive file that appears to contain information from the site... |
13 May 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian went house shopping and then for a bite to eat on Friday afternoon and, as always with Kim, they were surrounded by paparazzi. At one point, Kanye got physical with one of the photographers. Video of his outburst is here. *Please note that discretion is recommended because it contains ... |
11 May 2013
06:42 GMT |
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Earlier today, a hacker that goes by the name of Hyst3ria (@Hyst3riaKMS) has notified us that he has breached the official website of Romania’s National Authority for Qualifications (anc.gov.ro), a public institution coordinated by the country’s Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports.
As a res... |
11 May 2013
03:36 GMT |
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Sometime between September 2012 and February 2013, hackers managed to breach into the systems of the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts.
According to the Associated Press, officials confirmed that 94 social security numbers (SSNs) had been stolen by the hackers. Despite the fact that there&rs... |
10 May 2013
04:42 GMT |
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These days, a large number of data breaches are blamed on China. However, Evernote claims that the recent hack attack doesn’t appear to come from China, but an identity theft group. According to Bloomberg, Mandiant is investigating the breach that affected Evernote and a detailed report will be compiled in a f... |
9 May 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Name.com has started sending out notifications to customers, informing them about a data breach. The company believes that hackers might have accessed usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card information.
The Internet registrar says it stores the private keys needed to access credit ... |
9 May 2013
03:56 GMT |
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack launched yesterday caused a number of Dutch government websites, including the government’s main site, to become inaccessible to visitors. According to ABC News, the attack began on Tuesday evening and made the websites inaccessible for several hours. The governme... |
8 May 2013
10:28 GMT |
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The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) has been among the first victims of OpUSA, the campaign launched by several hacktivist groups on May 7. The attack on HPD’s systems was carried out by X-Blackerz Inc.
HPD representatives have confirmed that the hackers gained access to the department’s “Alerts&r... |
8 May 2013
02:56 GMT |
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Ransomware helps cybercriminals make millions of dollars each year. While the crooks can earn a lot of money from regular Internet users, companies can also be a lucrative target. A perfect example is a recent attack against FOX21, the reality television production arm of 20th Century Fox. Details are scarce, but ... |
7 May 2013
10:44 GMT |
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Mapco Express, the US-based convenience store chain, is notifying customers about a security breach. The company says hackers have managed to gain access to customer credit/debit card information by planting malware on payment processing systems.
The precise number of affected customers hasn’t been revea... |
7 May 2013
07:24 GMT |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Patrick, who already has somewhat of a reputation online for his modeling gigs and for being mistakenly linked romantically to Taylor Swift, got into some trouble over the weekend.
In fact, he got into enough trouble to be kicked out of a club in Los Angeles, where he’d gaine... |
7 May 2013
03:55 GMT |
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The official Twitter account of famous Nigerian singer and actress Stella Damasus was hijacked on Friday.
The hacker posted the following tweet from the compromised account: “OMG! RIP Daniel. Is everybody happy now? *tears*”
“Daniel” refers to Daniel Ademinokan, the business partner and alle... |
6 May 2013
04:06 GMT |
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The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked the Twitter account of yet another major media organization. This time, the victim is E! Online, the popular celebrity gossip and entertainment news provider. The hackers claim to have breached not only E! Online’s Twitter account, but also its SMS service, which alleged... |
6 May 2013
02:54 GMT |
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In a statement published a few hours ago, the E-Sports Entertainment Association (ESEA) has admitted that its software client hijacked the computers of customers and used their GPUs to generate Bitcoins. The company performed some internal tests with a software client that used the GPUs logged into it to mine Bitcoi... |
2 May 2013
08:41 GMT |
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