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Wanting to make sure that the upcoming London Olympics is an incident-free event, the Metropolitan Police performed a security test to see if they can manage to smuggle a bomb to the main site and apparently they succeeded.
It seems as the organizers have a lot of things to set straight before the big event after a ... |
10 January 2012
08:17 GMT |
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The Members community portal for Square Enix gamers in both Japan and in the United States has been breached by unknown attackers and the video game publisher has decided to take it offline in order to evaluate the extent of the problem.
A statement from the publisher on the official website stated, “We have r... |
15 December 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Online gambling gets another blow after Ultimate Bet (UB) suffered a data breach as a result of which around 3.5 million of their customers’ accounts were published online.
Full names, aliases, email addresses, phone numbers, account balances, IP addresses, deposit methods, birth dates, UB account numbers and status... |
7 December 2011
05:39 GMT |
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A new report released by the US Government Accountability Office reveals that in the past 5 years the number of security breaches in federal networks have increased constantly, regardless of the measures implemented by the authorities.
The analysis is based on reports coming from 24 major national agencies collect... |
4 October 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Sony executives are trying to recover from the difficult start they've had this year and the first step is to hire a new person to put in charge of their data security, the large number of attacks targeting the Japanese company clearly being a cry for an improvement in this sector.Philip Reitinger was appointed ... |
6 September 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous' AntiSec campaign have targeted yet another US defense contractor and leaked business emails belonging to one of its senior officers.In a post on Pastebin, the hackers announced the release of 1GB worth of emails belonging to Richard T. Garcia, Senior Vice President of Vanguard ... |
19 August 2011
13:54 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous' Operation Antisec have leaked a massive cache of personal records, email messages and confidential documents belonging to law enforcement agencies.The data was obtained recently when the group hacked into a server housing 77 websites belonging to county sheriff offices and othe... |
6 August 2011
05:26 GMT |
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UK budget hotel chain Travelodge has confirmed that its email marketing database was breached earlier this year resulting in spam being sent to a number of its customers.The company launched an investigation back in June after multiple customers reported receiving job spam on addresses they registered with the hotel ... |
5 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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An Anonymous member involved with the group's campaign against NATO claims the hacktivists still have access to the organization's computer network and continue to extract data Identified as Commander X, the hacker told CBS News in an email that the group will release all the information it gathers, but exp... |
22 July 2011
12:27 GMT |
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The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is facing serious embarrassment if a report about blueprints of its future headquarters disappearing proves to be true.The alleged security breach was reported by the German-language Focus magazine last week. The publication quotes an unnamed intelligence official as sour... |
14 July 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous collective and its Antisec campaign have hacked into computer systems belonging to U.S. military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and leaked sensitive data found inside.The hackers described the attack in the description of a torrent posted on ThePirateBay which also contains a lis... |
12 July 2011
04:20 GMT |
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A hacker affiliated with Anonymous claims to have broken into the websites of 18 Italian universities from where he extracted sensitive information.The hacker who uses the online handle of LulzStorm, a reference to the defunct LulzSec hacking outfit, has uploaded part of the stolen data in a torrent."Today is a great... |
7 July 2011
13:51 GMT |
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The website of the Indian National Security Guard (NSG) was defaced by hackers and the email accounts of some officers were compromised.NSG is one of India's special response units that is mainly involved in counter-terrorism activities. It is headquartered in Mehramnagar, Palam.Following the hack, all officers ... |
4 July 2011
13:27 GMT |
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An error in Hulu's integration with Facebook Connect allowed tens of users to access other people's accounts and view sensitive information about them.On July 1, Hulu began giving users the option to link their accounts with Facebook. To encourage this, the company offered adopters an one-month free Hulu Pl... |
2 July 2011
08:09 GMT |
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StartCom, one of the certification authorities trusted by browsers to issue SSL certificates has been breached earlier this month by attackers who tried to spoof high-profile websites.StartCom, which operates its SSL business as StartSSL, temporarily suspended the issuing of new certificates because of a security bre... |
21 June 2011
07:24 GMT |
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Activity on Mt.Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, was suspended earlier today in order to deal with two security incidents that led people to doubt the administrators' ability to provide a secure service.Mt. Gox admins took the website offline after a series of large transactions initiated from a compromised acc... |
20 June 2011
03:37 GMT |
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was recently the target of a sophisticated cyber attack in which hackers managed to access sensitive information.Giving IMF's important role in current and future bailout programs, the non-public data stored on its systems could be very useful to parties trying to predict ma... |
13 June 2011
06:34 GMT |
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RSA, the security division of EMC, has acknowledged that information stolen from its network was used to carry out a cyber attack against Lockheed Martin and offers to replace all of the 40 million SecurID hardware tokens in existence.Back in March, RSA announced that attackers managed to penetrate its network and ac... |
7 June 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Sony has announced that it is revising its forecasted financial results for the coming year and that it expects to use the equivalent of 171.7 million dollars in order to cover the costs of the recent PlayStation Network-centered security breach.
The cost of the security b... |
24 May 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Sony's security problems are not over and new security breaches seem to pop up every week. The latest one involves user information being leaked from the website of Sony BMG Greece.The incident was revealed over the weekend when someone publicly disclosed the stolen information of 8.385 users. However, the actua... |
23 May 2011
02:43 GMT |
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The French High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet, commonly referred to as HADOPI, has suspended the monitoring of peer-2-peer networks for IPs involved in copyright infringement after the company tasked with the job suffered a security breach.HADOPI is a government age... |
17 May 2011
12:36 GMT |
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A United States Senator has pointed to the way that video game company Sony reacted to the recent security breach that has affected the PlayStation Network, saying that it could serve as a model for other companies that have similar situations in the near future.
Richard Blumenthal, who is a Senator from the Democ... |
10 May 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Sony is considering offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for hacking into its online systems and compromising the personal and financial information of over 75 million customers.According to All Things Digital, the option is still being discussed inside the company, but if a de... |
9 May 2011
11:44 GMT |
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In a letter to Congress, Sony claims that Anonymous' distributed denial-of-service attacks against its systems served as cover for more serious intrusions that resulted in massive data breaches. In addition, it claims that a file bearing the group's signature was found on one of its compromised servers."Son... |
5 May 2011
04:39 GMT |
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HBGary has published an open letter clarifying some issues about the security breach suffered earlier this year and acknowledging that keeping silent did the company more harm than good.HBGary was the favorite subject of security news websites and blogs for much of February, following an attack by the Anonymous colle... |
21 April 2011
01:40 GMT |
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German software developer Ashampoo has notified its customers about a data breach incident that resulted in the exposure of their names and email addresses.According to an announcement posted on the company's website, unidentified hackers broke through its security systems and gained unauthorized access to a ser... |
20 April 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Over six hundred credit cards belonging to various Australian government agencies have been compromised during a cyber attack against a telecommunications company.The security breach at Sydney-based Rojone Pty Ltd, a supplier of communications equipment and cabling, occurred last month and resulted in the theft of a ... |
11 April 2011
03:01 GMT |
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The recently disclosed security breach at Epsilon Data Management, a big email marketing solutions provider, affects the customers of many large companies.Last week, retail supermarket chain Kroger warned its customers that their email addresses were exposed as a result of a security breach at Epsilon.But it seems th... |
4 April 2011
02:56 GMT |
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Retail supermarket chain Kroger is the latest entry on a long list of companies whose customer email databases were stolen by hackers in recent months.Kroger began sending out notification emails to customers yesterday in order to inform them about the incident and warn them of potential risks."Kroger wants you to kn... |
2 April 2011
04:57 GMT |
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has notified over 800 members that their credit card details might have been exposed during a network intrusion.The data breach incident was disclosed in a letter [pdf] sent by IEEE's counsel to the New Hampshire Attorney General, as required by state ... |
31 March 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The recent hacking attack at NASDAQ, the world's second-largest stock trading market, might have been more serious than originally thought as the National Security Agency was brought into the investigation.Joel Brenner, the former head of U.S. counterintelligence, told Bloomberg that the involvement of NSA in th... |
31 March 2011
03:46 GMT |
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According to media reports, computers used by many Australian ministers, including Prime Minister Julia Gillard, have been compromised by hackers. The Daily Telegraph reports that tens of thousands of emails stored on official computers might have been accessed without authorization. The security breach was confi... |
29 March 2011
07:55 GMT |
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The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hacker collective has notified the German Federal Finance Agency (Bundesfinanzagentur) of a serious security hole present on its website for years.The vulnerability allowed any user to modify the content of the website through a Web-based file manager that was left unprotected.The German... |
11 March 2011
12:56 GMT |
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The US federal authorities are investigating multiple intrusions into NASDAQ's computer network that occurred last year, but the affected system is not related to the stock market.The intruders' motives remain unclear and so far it only appears they looked around without advancing beyond compromised system.... |
7 February 2011
02:57 GMT |
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It seems that the source code for one of Kaspersky's security products has been leaked online and is available for download from torrent and file hosting websites.According to a description accompanying the release, the sources were stolen from Kaspersky Lab in 2008 with the last changes dating from December 200... |
28 January 2011
09:19 GMT |
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The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), EU's carbon emissions trading market, was suspended after several security incidents were reported by national registries lately.EU ETS is one of the most important pillars in Europe's climate policy. It allows more than 10,000 installations to trade in ... |
20 January 2011
11:52 GMT |
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The Information Technology Division of Stony Brook University (SBU) is investigating a data leak after a file containing student names associated with university IDs was leaked online.SBU is a public university located in Stony Brook, Long Island with a secondary campus in Manhattan. As of fall 2010 it has 24,594 stu... |
22 December 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Ohio State University (OSU) is in the process of notifying 760,000 former and current students, employees, consultants, contractors and applicants, that a computer housing a database with their personal information was compromised by hackers.The breach was discovered in late October during a routine security review, ... |
15 December 2010
13:49 GMT |
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Android mobile phone users might find themselves vulnerable if having Flash Player 10.1 installed on their devices, as a new security issue with the solution was discovered recently. According to Adobe, the vulnerability in question is a zero-day one, meaning that it was discovered while being exploited into the wil... |
15 September 2010
05:34 GMT |
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A bogus upgrade on the Anthem Blue Cross website has left the personally identifiable information of around 230,000 people freely accessible on the Internet for months. The company is sending out notification letters to affected individuals and is offering them a free one-year subscription with an identity protection... |
28 June 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Argos, one of the leading general-goods retailers in the UK, has been sending out order confirmation emails with sensitive credit card data in the source code for months. Sensitive details were also included in a URL sent to costumers.The security breach was reported to PC Pro earlier this month by a former Argos cus... |
5 March 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Suffolk County National Bank, a subsidiary of Suffolk Bancorp, announced that back in December it learned of a security breach on one of its Online Banking servers. The organization discovered that 8,378 customer credentials were stolen, but is not aware of any of them being misused to date. The intrusion occurred b... |
16 January 2010
05:05 GMT |
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The website of the highly popular Practical Fishkeeping aquarium magazine was hacked over a week ago, prompting its administrators to alert the almost 24,000 members that their personal information might have been stolen. The website is still down at the time of writing this article.Practical Fishkeeping is a best-se... |
14 December 2009
09:20 GMT |
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A grey hat hacker has found a critical SQL injection weakness on the official Kaspersky Lab websites in Malaysia and Singapore. Exploiting the vulnerability leads to full compromise of the underlying database, which contains customer information, product keys and other sensitive data.The attack has been documented by... |
10 December 2009
10:06 GMT |
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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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