Posts Tagged ‘security’
Target faces second largest credit card hack in U.S.
Shoppers may be hesitant to head to Target this holiday season, after an estimated 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been compromised after a data breach occurring between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, 2013.
Read MoreWeb Application Security on the rise as 2013 comes to an end
Almost a third of all security breaches are against web applications, and web applications and databases have the most records compromised yearly. So why aren’t applications being better protected?
Read MoreSecurity B-Sides Los Angeles: Discover the Next Big Thing
Security B-Sides Los Angeles presented a fun and educational opportunity for the local information security community to engage in open conversation over several relevant topics.
Read MoreChinese hackers reach ‘breathtaking’ heights
As a result of Chinese hackers’ latest cyber-attack, designs of over two dozen highly specialized U.S. weapons systems were breached.
Read MoreLulzSec hacktivists given longest sentence ever for hacking
LulzSec, famed British hacktivist collective, have been dealt the longest jail sentences ever for hacking. The group of young hackers has been behind several advanced cyberattacks on institutions across various sectors.
Read MoreLivingSocial hack results in 50 million compromised user accounts
LivingSocial, the daily deals site partially owned by Amazon, disclosed Friday that they had suffered a serious cyber attack. CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy sent an email to his employees to admit the resulting “unauthorized access to some customer data” and that they were “actively working with law enforcement to investigate this issue.”
Read MoreSocial media’s role in Boston Marathon story development
Last week the entire country hovered around computers, tablets and smartphones for minute-by-minute news, as well as public commentary, in the development of the Boston Marathon story. But what role did it have in the capture of suspects, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
Read MoreStudy finds 55 percent of SMBs were breached in 2012
Over half of small businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute as part of a recent study experienced some sort of data breach last year. Out of the affected businesses, a great deal of breaches were ignited internally, either by mistake or on purpose by employees and contractors.
Read MoreCelebrity hacker gets decade-long prison sentence
The man who “humiliated and embarrassed” Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and more than 40 other celebrities was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Monday at a court in Los Angeles.
Read MoreTaliban accidentally out entire PR mailing list
It is enough of a shocker that the Taliban even has a PR department. During a routine distribution of a press release, the Islamic fundamentalist group accidentally gave away the contact information of its 400-person mailing list, according to an ABC report Friday.
Read More