Blog Posts Tagged with "breach"
Epsilon Breach Deals Another Blow to Cloud Security
April 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Any company that is privileged to manage the information that a company maintains about its customers should be paying attention... Customers will surely start to wonder if they can’t trust these firms with their email addresses..."
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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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Has The Sun Set On LizaMoon?
April 08, 2011 Added by:Alexander Rothacker
If an organization didn’t catch the attack and the hackers covered their tracks, they might not know of the breach. What if the attackers set up backdoors to come back another time? Now they know exactly where to look for the organization’s critical data – who is to say they won’t be back?
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Health Net Incident Impacts 1.9 Million: Lessons Learned
April 07, 2011 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Health Net is clearly stating that IBM is responsible for the breach. Guess what? When you outsource business activities to a third party, you do not outsource your responsibility. What was Health Net doing to ensure, on an ongoing basis, that IBM had appropriate safeguards in place?
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WikiLeaks Source Manning Used Data-Mining Software
April 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The U.S. Army has confirmed that accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning had installed data-mining software on his SIPRnet-linked computer during the same period he is suspected of harvesting hundreds-of-thousands of classified government documents...
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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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RSA Breach Long Term Impact for Security Professionals
March 30, 2011 Added by:Nick Owen
With the explosion of cloud-based services, organizations are relying on the security of their vendor's vendors. What lessons can we learn from the RSA and Comodo episodes, and how should it impact decision making? Here are some longer-term items to think about...
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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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The RSA Hack: Don't Overreact
March 27, 2011 Added by:Eric Cissorsky
When IT Security panics, it causes ripple effects throughout the enterprise. In the event this turns out to be a serious breach, you will be credited with keeping your cool and weathering the storm. Overreacting to any security incident can undermine your department's credibility...
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TripAdvisor Member Emails Stolen by Hacker
March 25, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"This is the second time a well known website has been breached this week – just a few days ago it was Play.com with egg on its face, now it’s TripAdvisor. It’s the regularity of these types of incident that suggest traditional approaches to IT security are no longer fit for purpose..."
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HBGary's Hoglund: Anonymous are Criminal Hackers
March 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"They are going after people's family and children. They actually have all the family members listed. And they call them up on the phone. They harass them. There have been cases where death threats have been left. It's just ridiculous, and it's completely unacceptable," Hoglund said...
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RSA Fail - Security Lessons Unlearned
March 18, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
Security pros have to wonder about the security state as a whole when the founders of "two factor" key fobs take a hit. One would believe that in the event someone compromised a machine inside of RSA, their own security - two factor key fobs - would have prevented escalation between other machines...
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EMC's Security Division Hacked
March 18, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Our investigation has led us to believe that the attack is in the category of an APT... and revealed that the attack resulted in certain information being extracted from RSA's systems. Some of that information is specifically related to RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication products..."
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Was a Teenage Girl Central to the HBGary Hack?
March 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Kayla played a crucial role, posing as Barr to an IT administrator... to gain access to the company’s servers... [Kayla] and four other hackers broke into his company’s servers... defacing his Web site, purging data and posting more than 50,000 of his emails online for the world to see..."
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Health Net Data Breach Involves 1.9 Million Records
March 15, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The DMHC has opened an investigation into the the security practices of Health Net after the company reported that they can not locate nine network server drives from the Rancho Cordova data center that contain as many as 1.9 million current and former customer records...
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