Breaches
Should You Be Worried About the LinkedIn Breach?
June 06, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
People who rely on LinkedIn for professional networking keep a wealth of information stored on their profile pages. With news of a possible data breach exposing 6.5 million user passwords, LinkedIn users need to take steps to protect their personal data. Here are five tips we recommend you follow...
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LinkedIn Hacked: Change Your Password
June 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Reports indicate that as many as 6.4 million passwords have been compromised. Though the passwords are in encrypted form, reports indicate that they are being cracked at a rapid rate, with somewhere near 300,000 passwords already revealed, putting those LinkedIn members' accounts at risk...
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NASA Denies Iranian Hacker's SSL Certificate Breach Claims
May 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
NASA has officially denied that the agency's systems were breached by the Iranian hacker group the "Cyber Warriors Team," which claimed to have compromised a digital SSL certificate after having coded an HTTPS protocol scanner to find weaknesses in the agency's website...
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On the Recent Blizzard and Diablo 3 Account Compromises
May 29, 2012 Added by:Beau Woods
Gamers have gotten more savvy about giving away information which would allow someone else to access their account. But the attackers have adapted as well and use other ways of getting that information than by sending fake emails. Here are some of the more creative and sophisticated ways the thieves operate...
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Anonymous Claims Department of Justice Hack, Data Dump
May 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The department is looking into the unauthorized access of a website server operated by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that contained data from their public website. The... website has remained operational throughout this time. The department’s main website... was not affected..."
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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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Breached! Now What? Seven Steps to Avoid Failure Panic
May 07, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
To many organizations, a security breach means a catastrophic failure in security signifying a breakdown in the mechanisms installed to keep the organization secure, and by its very nature represents failure. The problem with this situation is it really represents two failures...
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Symantec Targeted in Source Code Extortion Scheme
May 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Symantec’s internal information security team has analyzed the code that was posted and has determined it is NOT Symantec source code... this is NOT Norton source code that has been posted, this is not a hack of Norton... and this does no pose a threat in any way to Norton products..."
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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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Duty to Authenticate Identity: Online Banking Breach Lawsuits
April 26, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The attenuated nature of online relationships creates an opportunity for criminals to steal or spoof online identities and use them for monetary gain. The ability of one party to authenticate the identity of the other party in an online transaction is of key importance...
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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 23, 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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Data Breach Study Finds Breach Costs Have Fallen
April 13, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The latest CDBS study can be considered a bookend to Verizon’s annual DBIR. The two reports paint a data breach landscape that continues to change. For the first time in seven years, both the organizational cost of data breach and the cost per lost or stolen record have declined...
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Who is Your Machine Talking To?
April 13, 2012 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
Network connections that communicate with machine-to-machine (M2M) management platforms are especially prone to attacks, in part because the M2M systems primarily communicate via Wi-Fi networks and 2 or 3G connections...
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Verizon DBIR 2012: Some Context...
April 12, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
The Verizon DBIR 2012 was released last month and I am sure you have seen a lot on the subject. With every report, statistics and opinions have to be put in the right context. The conclusions are not surprising, but there are a few nuggets in the report worth examining...
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