- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 29th, 2012
Council on Foreign Relations Site Hosted Malicious Content Since December 21
English, Korean, Russian, Japanese and Chinese speaking users were targeted
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 29th, 2012
US Army Databases Hacked, Details of 36,000 Individuals Stolen
The incident affected personnel and visitors of Fort Monmouth
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 19th, 2012
Heroes of Newerth Suffers Password Security Breach
Hackers breached a third party that had access to the account database
- Incidents
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 17th, 2012
ICO Fines Leeds, Plymouth, Devon and Lewisham Councils for Losing Personal Data
The monetary fines they have to pay sum up to £300 000 ($486,000 / 369,000 EUR)
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 17th, 2012
Hackers Demand Payment from Australian School After Seizing Student Records
Byron Bay Community School has contacted the police
- Hacking News
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 17th, 2012
Egyptian Hacker Claims to Have Breached Yahoo! Servers
Yahoo! is investigating the incident, but it's confident that users are not affected
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 14th, 2012
LogMeIn and DocuSign Possibly Hacked, Customers Complain About Spam
Both companies are investigating the data breach claims
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 14th, 2012
Flaw in Universal Jobmatch Website Allows Hackers to Harvest Personal Information
The details of 70 individuals have been collected to demonstrate the vulnerability
- Hacking News
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 14th, 2012
FBI: Hackers Breach ICS Network of Air Conditioning Company by Using Backdoor
The attackers leveraged vulnerabilities in Tridium’s Niagara AX Framework
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 13th, 2012
$20M (€15M) Given to South Carolina DOR to Cover Hacking Incident
The money will be used for data encryption, credit monitoring, legal fees and PR
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 13th, 2012
California Department of Health Care Inadvertently Exposes Details of 14,000 People
The information was available on the Internet for nine days
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 8th, 2012
Computers of Former US Navy Admiral Targeted by Hackers [WSJ]
Chinese hackers are blamed for the cyberattacks on Michael Mullen's PCs
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 7th, 2012
New Zealand Work and Income Incident Reports Cost $450,000
Deloitte has released the results of its second report
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 7th, 2012
UK Court Orders Bank Employee to Pay Fine for Illegally Accessing Statements
The ICO believes that those who commit such crimes should be sent to prison
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 4th, 2012
RoTLD Admits It Was Hacked, Takes Responsibility for Google Romania Hijacking
The attack took place on the night between November 27 and 28
- Hacking News
- By Eduard Kovacs
- December 4th, 2012
Hackers Publish Information from IAEA’s Nuclear Data Section
Parastoo claims to have access to more than 15 domains operated by the agency
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- November 27th, 2012
Lack of Control over Privileged Accounts Is Often the Cause of Data Breaches
Quest Software offers insight on how Privileged Account Management practices must be used