Blog Posts Tagged with "breach"
Twitter Hack! Five Ways to Avoid Being a Victim of Phishing
May 13, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Twitter is downplaying a security breach that exposed tens of thousands of user emails and passwords. The compromised Twitter accounts could have been the result of phishing attacks. Whenever you read about such breaches, it is always a good idea to change your password...
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Space Agencies Confirm Network Intrusions
May 10, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“NASA security officials detected an intrusion into the site on April 20... The agency takes the issue of IT security very seriously and at no point was sensitive or controlled information compromised. NASA has made significant progress to better protect the agency’s IT systems..."
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Hackers Post Thousands of Twitter Account Logins
May 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Analysis of the data dump indicates that of the fifty-five thousand sets of account logins, around twenty-thousand were duplicates, and a large percentage were associated with accounts that were already suspended for violations of terms of service...
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Hacktivists Claim Government and Military Systems Breach
May 03, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A new hacktivist group claims to have breached the systems of multiple government, military and private organizations. The hackers posted screenshots of their intrusions to support their claims, as well as posting what is characterized as military files for access on MediaFire...
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VMware Confirms Older Hypervisor Source Code Exposed
April 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Our security team became aware of the public posting of a single file from the VMware ESX source code and the possibility that more files may be posted in the future. The posted code and associated commentary dates to the 2003 to 2004 timeframe..."
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Nissan Confirms Cyber Attack and Network Breach
April 25, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"We have detected an intrusion into our company's global information systems network... we believe that our systems are secure and that no customer, employee or program data has been compromised. However, we believe that user IDs and hashed passwords were transmitted..."
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Four Steps to Follow when Your Credit Card is Compromised
April 24, 2012 Added by:Christopher Burgess
Certification of compliance demonstrates that at that given point of time the entity was in adherence to the PCI standards. The threat landscape is dynamic and ever changing requiring those entrusted with our data to take steps beyond compliance to protect that data...
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Update on the Visa - MasterCard - GPN Breach
April 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Global Payments' announced that Track 2 data was stolen, which is used by the bank. Track 1 data generally refers to the information reported on the front of a bank card. So if this information was stolen along with that contained in Track 2, it is possible to clone a card...
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Visa and MasterCard Alert Banks of Massive Processor Breach
March 30, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Visa Inc. is aware of a potential data compromise incident at a third party entity... Visa has provided payment card issuers with the affected account numbers so they can take steps to protect consumers through independent fraud monitoring and, if needed, reissuing cards..."
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Panda Security Suffers the Wrath of AntiSec
March 07, 2012 Added by:Kevin McAleavey
The defacement also show tremendous amounts of sensitive corporate information including internal accounts, passwords, server and cloud configurations, access information to the antivirus lab's Teamviewer as well as alternate means of accessing their internals via "logmein"...
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AntiSec, Stratfor, WikiLeaks, and Much Ado about Nothing
March 01, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Some of us out there know a little bit about how intelligence works. While the likes of WikiLeaks rail about how some are using money and perhaps even sex to sway their sources, the reality is that this game has always been played this way. Intelligence is a dirty business...
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Remote Attack Code for Symantec's pcAnywhere in the Wild
February 23, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"A surprising amount of the core code originates from... 10 years ago with only a few added changes, mainly to accommodate changes in Windows versions. Many individual .exe or other files include an accompanying Word document with a detailed developer description of how it functions.."
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Lessons from the Nortel Networks Breach
February 17, 2012 Added by:Suzanne Widup
Much is being published about how inappropriate the response to the Nortel incident was, but it demonstrates an important point for companies - how do you know when you’ve done enough? How do you tell when an incident is over, and you should go back to business as usual?
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Nortel: From Bankruptcy to Industrial Espionage Victim
February 15, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The damage is incalculable if we consider the enormous amount of data that may have been lost. Information on technological solutions, business reports, and other sensitive documents were stolen for years, seriously compromising the intellectual property of the company...
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KPN Hack: Why was Customer Notification Delayed?
February 13, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The login credentials were stored in plain text in the repository that had been exposed, and that is absurd. This is a failure of the basic security procedures that should be recognized internationally, and is an offense for which there should be heavy penalties...
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Hacker Boasts of Intel Corporation Network Breach
February 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A hacker who goes by the handles "WeedGrower" and "X-pOSed" claims to have breached tech giant Intel and to have gained access to an Intel.com subscriber database that contains sensitive information including passwords, social security and credit card numbers...
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