At the end of October, during a routine monitoring of their servers, Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU's) IT staff discovered a server that was compromised as a result of a hacking operation.
Even though this server didn't contain any data, it was five days later when they noticed that a second ... |
15 November 2011
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DeviantART alerted members subscribed to its mailing list that their email addresses have been exposed during a data leak at its marketing partner.The company does not specify the circumstances under which the breach occurred, but notes that besides email addresses, usernames and birth dates might also have been copi... |
13 December 2010
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Many cybercriminals are probably nervous after an unidentified group of hackers managed to compromise a credit card payment processor used in illegal operations and leaked detailed information about its customers.According to researchers from Trend Micro, who looked into the breach, the compromised company was ... |
16 August 2010
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Websites belonging to several large European banks, such as ING, Dexia and HSBC, have been hacked through SQL injection. These proof-of-concept attacks reveal poor security practices on behalf of institutions that people entrust with their life savings.The security issues have been discovered by Romanian self-confess... |
5 September 2009
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The Apache Project's Infrastructure Team was forced to take its primary servers offline yesterday, after discovering that unknown hackers uploaded and executed malicious code on them. The attackers apparently used a stolen SSH authentication key associated with a backup account to break in. The attack started d... |
29 August 2009
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