Information of Nearly 4,000 Beth Israel Patients at Risk in Stolen Laptop Incident

The information of nearly 4,000 patients at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BIDMC may have been leaked according to a report from the Boston Globe over the weekend. A laptop was stolen from the Harvard-associated teaching hospital on May 22 that could yield the incomplete medical...

Reliance Communications Server Compromised with Information disclosure Vulnerability

Hacker with nickname "mr.hack3r420" has successfully compromise the web server of Reliance Communications rcom.co.in as shown in image screenshot taken by THN team and we make link hidden to save site from further misuse of damage. Hacker most probably get this access because of Information...

Hacker Claims Compromise of IT Recruiter

A hacker affiliated with a group called TeamGhostShell claims he hacked into a website servicing IT professionals seeking jobs on Wall Street, and in doing so compromised the personal information of thousands of job applicants, according to a ComputerWorld report. A hacker identifying himself as...

Data Breach Reports Remain Spotty, Study Finds

In a twist on Tolstoy’s famous observation that “all happy families are alike,” the Identity Theft Resource Center ITRC is warning that the public is being told that ‘all data breaches are alike,’ as corporations paint a worryingly bland portrait of breaches and other data loss incidents affectin...

NVIDIA Developer Forums Hacked, 400000 user accounts at Risk

Nvidia shut down its Developer Zone online forum today after hackers gained access to members' account details.A statement Nvidia posted on the forum reads, "Nvidia suspended operations today of the Nvidia Developer Zone. We did this in response to attacks on the site by unauthorised third partie...

Yahoo Patches Vulnerability that Led to 450,000-Password Breach

Yahoo announced today it’s fixed the security hole that allowed a hacker group this week to post some 450,000 email addresses and passwords belonging to freelance writers. “We have taken swift action and have now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for affected Yahoo!...

Password Leaks Continue: Billabong, NVIDIA Accounts Compromised

UPDATE: A string of high-profile hacks against online forums and companies continued on Thursday, with news that forums hosted by the technology firm NVIDIA as well as the surf-ware vendor Billabong. A document posted on the Web site codepaste.net purports to contain both administrative- and user...

Android Forums hacked, User Credentials Stolen

Phandroid's Android Forums Web site is hacked and user account details stolen, according to a notice posted online. The data includes the user names, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords, and registration IP addresses of the forums' more than 1 million users. If you are one of them, you should chan...

Social Site Formspring Says 420k User Password Hashes Posted Online

Hackers broke into a development server at Formspring, a social Q&A site, and made off with the password hashes for 420,000 users and later posted them online. The company has reset all of the users’ passwords and said it also has changed the way that it handles passwords. Formspring officials sa...

Indian Navy Computers hacked by Chinese Hackers

Chinese hackers allegedly plant bug via flash drives on India navy's computers, which relayed sensitive data to China IP addresses. The sniffing tool was found in the naval computers exactly as INS Arihant, India's first nuclear missile submarine, was in trials at the targeted facility in...

用友俱乐部SQL注入漏洞

简要描述： 前几天提交的漏洞http://www.wooyun.org/bugs/wooyun-2012-08484，被忽略，想想觉得没意思，可能这是废弃的用友应用，今天有看了看下载的代码，里面的数据库链接虽然已经失效，不过看代码发现了SQL注入漏洞，可以爆库，里面10几万用户数据，就算废弃的应用也不能这样不管不顾用户的个人信息安全 详细说明： 目录遍历漏洞已经报了 WooYun: 用友俱乐部目录遍历至源文件打包下载 ，这个算续集， 注入点：http://tclub.ufida.com.cn/adduser/chkuuid.asp?uuid=1...

Federal Commission Phished, Employees' Information Leaked

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC, an independent federal agency that helps regulate futures and option markets, was hit with a data breach last month according to an e-mail statement from the Commission that circulated online late last week. The e-mail confirmed an attacker was...

Woman Sues LinkedIn for $5 Million Over Data Breach

Less than two weeks after learning more than 6 million stolen LinkedIn passwords were posted online, an Illinois woman is leading a class-action lawsuit against the professional networking site for using inadequate security tools to protect its members’ data. Katie Szpyrka, who registered for a...

Face.com Fixes Flaw to Prevent Facebook and Twitter Hijacks

A significant flaw in the Face.com mobile application KLIK has been fixed to prevent Facebook and Twitter users from having their accounts hijacked. KLIK is a camera app that uses face recognition to tag friends in Facebook photos in real time. It also apparently granted access to KLIK users’...

Claims Of Attack On Visa, Mastercard Fizzle

One day after a hacker using the handle “Reckz0r” claims to have infiltrated 79 different banks and leaked information allegedly belonging to Visa and MasterCard customers, there are questions about whether a hack actually occurred. According to a post yesterday on Pastebin, the hacker Reckz0r...

Personal Data Belonging to New Mexico Retirees at Risk After Laptop Theft

The personal information of some 100,000 members of the New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association PERA is at risk after a thief broke into a truck belonging to an employee working for the company hired to perform PERA’s annual audit and stole a laptop containing the sensitive data. The...

LinkedIn Victims Do Not Connect With Legitimate Notifications

The company sent an important e-mail notification with special coding DKIM and addressed the recipient by name. It also didn’t include any links in the actual message. And yet LinkedIn did not connect with some 250,000 of its users, who flagged the legitimate alert as spam. Some thought it was a...

NYT: When Hackers Strike, Small Business Owners Hit Hard

Independent business owners may find themselves deep in debt after hackers wipe out their bank accounts, with banks reluctant to recoup losses caused by online attacks, according to a report in the New York Times. The article, in the Thursday edition of the Times, details several so-called...

Global Payments Hack May Have Exposed Information On Individuals, Also

Payment processor Global Payments acknowledged Tuesday that a breach at the company announced in early March may have affected individual consumers, as well as merchants. In an update to its 2012infosecurityupdate.com site, the Atlanta-based company wrote that an ongoing investigation “revealed...

Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired

Privileged accounts have become an important attack vector, and if a recent survey of mostly IT managers and executives is any indication that threat will continue to grow. According to results of ID management provider Cyber-Ark’s sixth annual global “Trust, Security and Passwords Survey,” just...