Breaches
Epsilon Breach Will Impact Consumers for Years
April 19, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Consumers are receiving messages from trusted companies such as 1-800-Flowers, Chase, Hilton and others, letting them know that their e-mail addresses have been exposed. This provides a perfect opportunity for cybercriminals who may try to take advantage of the breach...
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Verizon: Total Data Loss is Down as Breaches Increase
April 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"There has been a shift in the threat landscape, and organized crime is targeting medium to small-sized businesses in the US. What we're seeing is the bad guys exploiting people who haven't taken basic security considerations into account in their small business..."
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WordPress Hack Exposes Proprietary Source Code
April 14, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed... We presume our source code was exposed and copied. While much of our code is Open Source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partners’ code..."
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Security Provider Barracuda Networks Hit by SQL Injection
April 12, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The website of application security vendor Barracuda Networks was compromised by a SQL injection attack. The attack appears to have exposed confidential information regarding Barracuda's business partners as well as network login credentials of several employees...
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Texas Exposes 3.5 Million Resident's Private Information
April 12, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The records contained the names and mailing addresses of individuals, Social Security numbers, and to varying degrees also contained other information such as dates of birth or driver’s license numbers...
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What the Epsilon Data Breach Means To You
April 11, 2011 Added by:Alexander Rothacker
Organizations rely on third party providers for numerous responsibilities and often treat them as an extension of their organization. Allowing third party access to ANY information should REQUIRE that they provide the most stringent security measures...
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Hyundai Capital Suffers Unprecedented Data Loss Event
April 11, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Estimations indicated that the names, email addresses and telephone numbers of at least 420 thousand clients have been compromised, and that the login credentials, financial information, and credit scores for as many as thirteen thousand accounts may also have been exposed...
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T.J.Maxx Hacker Claims Fed's Authorized Activities
April 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"I was acting on behalf of the United States Secret Service and that I was authorized and directed to engage in the conduct I committed as part of my assignment to gather intelligence and seek out international cybercriminals. I now know and understand that I have been used as a scapegoat..."
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Top Ten Embarrassing Data Breach Events
April 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
As the Epsilon data breach continues to grow to epic proportion, with the latest reports estimating that the client data of at least fifty major company's has been compromised, Tom Brewster has published an article with his list of the top ten most embarrassing data breaches to date...
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Adobe Flash Zero Day Bug Central to RSA Hack
April 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Hackers sent emails to a select group of RSA employees with a spreadsheet attachment which contained malware that exploited a flaw in the Adobe software that allowed them the opportunity to glean authentication credentials that enabled access to other systems in the network...
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Epsilon Data Breach Affects Multiple Companies
April 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The company states that their systems experienced and unauthorized access event that has exposed the names and email addresses of the customers the company's clients serve. Initial reports indicate that no financial data was revealed in the breach...
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Costly Malicious Data Breaches On the Rise
April 01, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Those are some of the findings of the 2010 US Cost of a Data Breach study from the Ponemon Institute. The benchmark study looked at the experiences of 51 US companies in 15 industry sectors; it's the sixth annual such survey done by Ponemon...
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NSA Joins Nasdaq Breach Investigation
March 30, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“By bringing in the NSA, that means they think they’re either dealing with a state-sponsored attack or it’s an extraordinarily capable criminal organization,” said the former head of U.S. counterintelligence Joel Brenner...
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Higher-Ed Breach Madness: The Data Breach Final Four
March 29, 2011 Added by:Alexander Rothacker
We thought it might be fun to take a look at which higher education institutions would make the “Data Breach Final Four”. Based on the number of reported records breached in 2010, we put together brackets for what we are calling the 2010 Higher Education Data Breach Madness...
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MySQL Website Hacked (Ironically) by Blind SQL Injection
March 28, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
Allow me to point out a little bit of irony in this headline... a website for one of the more popular open-source database alternatives gets completely compromised using blind SQL Injection. Ouch. Someone going by the moniker "Jack Haxor" posted this to the Full Disclosure mailing list...
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Iranian Hacker Claims Comodo Digital Certificate Heist
March 28, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The supposed lone-hacker now claiming responsibility, who dubbed him or herself "Comodohacker", said in their statement that the attack on Comodo was in retaliation for the release of the Stuxnet virus that damaged equipment at Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility...
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