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32 Charged with $100 Million Hack of Newswire Services
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged 32 people with involvement in a scheme to hack into the newswire services Marketwired, PR Newswire and Business Wire in order…
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Cybercriminals Use Man-in-the-Middle Attacks to Steal 6 Million Euros
Europol recently announced that a joint international operation had successfully dismantled a cybercriminal group active in Belgium, Georgia, Italy, Poland, Spain and the U.K., which had been responsible for international…
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Stolen Computers Lead to New Heartland Payment Systems Breach
Heartland Payment Systems recently began notifying approximately 2,200 people that their personal information may have been compromised when 11 password-protected computers were stolen from Heartland’s office in Santa Ana, California.…
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China to Require Backdoors in Foreign Hardware, Software
The Chinese government recently implemented new rules requiring foreign companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to disclose source code, submit to audits and build backdoors into both hardware…
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Progressive Insurance Dongle Hacked
At Digital Bond‘s S4x15 Conference last week, researcher Corey Thuen warned of significant security flaws in Progressive‘s Snapshot ODB-II port dongle, manufactured by Xirgo Technologies, which the insurance company uses…
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OneStopParking Hacked
According to investigative reporter Brian Krebs, the same cybercriminals thought to have been behind the credit card breaches at Target and Home Depot appear to have recently breached the U.S.…
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Researchers: Sony Hack Was Insider Breach
Norse Corporation researchers are claiming that a group of six people, including at least one former Sony Pictures employee, was behind the recent breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment. The researchers…
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BrowserStack Hacked via Shellshock
The cross-browser testing service BrowserStack was recently breached by an attacker who leveraged his access to send an email to users claiming that the service was shutting down. Claiming to…
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Forgotten Passwords Cost Companies $200,000 a Year
A recent survey of 2,000 people in the U.S. and the U.K. has found that companies lose over $420 in productivity per employee per year due to workers struggling with…
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Japan Airlines Breach Exposes 750,000 People’s Personal Data
Japan Airlines (JAL) recently acknowledged that the personal information of as many as 750,000 members of its JAL Mileage Bank (JMB) frequent flyer club may have been stolen when hackers…
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