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The gang of fraudsters who stole $9 million after hacking into the RBS WorldPay payment processor last year have been indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta, the United States Department of Justice announces. Four hackers and six cashers were charged with various counts of wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated ident... |
11 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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The online system of a large U.S. payroll processing company was attacked by hackers for the second time in a few weeks. Stolen credentials were used to create fake employees for companies in an attempt to siphon out funds out of their accounts.Onlineemployer.com, an online system belonging to PayChoice, one of the l... |
19 October 2009
10:07 GMT |
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The Apache Infrastructure Team has released a detailed analysis of the recent attack that led to multiple apache.org servers being compromised. After outlining the mistakes that made the incident possible and their plan to strengthen security, the admins have been congratulated by the community for their openness. T... |
4 September 2009
09:57 GMT |
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The wife of Sir John Sawers, who was appointed to head the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) starting this November, has leaked a huge amount of personal and sensitive information through her Facebook profile. Pictures of the couple, their children and other family members, as well as the identities of their ... |
6 July 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Prevx have uncovered a major security breach that affects more than 68,000 websites, including some high-profile ones. FTP credentials belonging to the likes of Amazon, Cisco, BBC, Symantec, McAfee, Monster, or even Bank of America have been found on a Zbot dumping site host... |
27 June 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Following a security incident on the website of the Prescription Monitoring Program, after which an unknown hacker allegedly held sensitive data for ransom, the Virginia Department of Health Professions (DHP) says that the information is safe on its backup servers. The criminal investigation continues. "Prescription... |
11 May 2009
09:07 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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Local media in India is reporting that the Ministry of External Affairs is dealing with a security incident on its computer network, after a number of computers have been found to be compromised with spyware. The malicious software has been sending copies of internal e-mail messages to a rogue address. The MEA netwo... |
17 February 2009
05:28 GMT |
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In a letter sent by the Department's of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to the administration of Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which LANS oversees, has been seriously criticized for lax cyber security practices. The memo has revealed ... |
13 February 2009
06:06 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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After a SQL injection attack against the US support website belonging to Kaspersky Labs was published on the Romanian Hackers Blog, the company disclosed details of the security breach. The investigation established that no sensitive data was accessed, but the antivirus vendor hired a database security expert to audi... |
10 February 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Job-listing website Monster.com has fallen victim to unknown hackers, who obtained unauthorized access to their database and downloaded account logins, as well as the corresponding personal information. The website warns that the stolen data could be used to launch phishing attacks.The Monster Network is a popular re... |
24 January 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processing provider based in Princeton, N.J., has disclosed that the security of its network has been compromised by unknown attackers. During a recent audit malicious applications intercepting and stealing transaction data have been found installed on the company's systems. ... |
21 January 2009
03:53 GMT |
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RBS WorldPay, a popular payment processing service, has announced that an unknown and unauthorized party has illegally obtained access to its computer systems. The personal information of 1.5 million customers, as well as the Social Security numbers of 1.1 million, may have been compromised, according to the company.... |
28 December 2008
06:34 GMT |
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After the UK government was hit by numerous data loss incidents this year, the Royal family suffered a similar security breach. The personal laptop of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was stolen from a photo studio. Fergie, as the British media often refers to the Duchess who made a passion for amateur photograp... |
19 December 2008
11:02 GMT |
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In a data breach notification sent to the Office of Privacy Protection in Wisconsin, as required by law, CheckFree estimates that as much as 160,000 customers might have been affected in early December, when their domain names were hijacked. We previously reported that at least two domain names belonging to the popul... |
17 December 2008
10:49 GMT |
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According to security breach notices received by the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland, recent incidents at both Symantec and HP compromised the personal information of a number of employees. This was the result of two laptops containing sensitive, though unencrypted data, being stolen. HP announced (PDF fi... |
12 December 2008
10:29 GMT |
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SonicWall, a well known vendor of firewall and other security-related appliances, announced that a licensing server outage caused the license keys in its products to be reset on Tuesday. The glitch left enterprises, organizations, and other entities unprotected from Internet threats for a significant period of time. ... |
4 December 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Political-motivated security incidents seem to keep piling up this year, as Barack Obama's transition team announced a security breach involving the President-elect's cell phone records. The information appears to have been illegally accessed by employees from the Verizon Wireless cell phone operator. Rober... |
21 November 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Express Scripts, number 135 in 2008's Fortune 500, has announced that, in October, it received a letter through which unknown persons were trying to extort money from the company by threatening to disclose a major security breach. According to the letter, the hackers got their hands on the personal details of mi... |
7 November 2008
09:17 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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The Identity Theft Resource Center has published the list of security breaches reported in the US in 2008. The number is astonishing - 449, which is three incidents more than the total registered in 2007. "The actual number of breaches is most likely higher, due to under-reporting and the fact that some of the breach... |
26 August 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Sony has put up a warning on its PlayStation.com front page detailing a security breach that could affect users of the PlayStation Store, the main on-line sales service maintained by Sony and part of the PlayStation Network. The statement says the problem has already been solved and the security breach closed, but at... |
27 March 2008
03:48 GMT |
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