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...

Survey Shows 85 Percent of Small Business Owners Convinced a Data Breach Unlikely

If a newly released survey is any indication, publicized data breaches aren’t enough to prompt small businesses to better protect their customer or employee data. A survey released this week by The Hartford found 85 percent of small business owners believe a data breach is unlikely and often lack...

Last.fm, Mum On Breach, Adopts 'More Rigorous' Password Security

Last.fm, the online music streaming service, said it has implemented ‘more rigorous’ security for customer account passwords in the wake of reports that some of those passwords had been leaked online. In a post on the company’s Website, Last.fm said that its investigation of reports that hashed o...

eHarmony, Last.fm Emerge as Latest Victims in Wake of LinkedIn Hack

The online dating site eHarmony announced Wednesday that passwords for some of its members have been leaked, making it the second major social network site to announce the theft of user passwords in the last 24 hours. According to an entry posted on the eHarmony Blog, the company reset the affect...

UGNazi hackers attack on CloudFlare via a flaw in Google

UGNazi hackers attack on CloudFlare via a flaw in Google After the FBI arrested Cosmo, the alleged leader of the UGNazi hacking group, the hackers attacked CloudFlare via a flaw in Google's two-factor authentication system. The CloudFlare hack allowed UGNazi to change the DNS for 4chan, so visito...

Student Suspected in University Hack That Leaked Info of 654K Cornhuskers

Officials at the University of Nebraska suspect a current undergraduate student is behind a hack earlier this month that appears to have spilled the sensitive information of tens of thousands of past and present students. According to a report from the Omaha World-Herald today, Police Chief Owen...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

phpCollab 2.5 - Direct Request Multiple Protected Page Access

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53675/info phpCollab is prone to an unauthorized-access and an arbitrary-file-upload vulnerabilities. Attackers can leverage these issues to gain unauthorized access to application data and to upload and execute arbitrary code in the context of the...

Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice and leaks 1.7GB of data

Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice and leaks 1.7GB of data Anonymous has apparently hacked the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and posted 1.7GB of data belonging to the agency on The Pirate Bay. This is a Monday Mail Mayhem release. Online statements attributed to Anonymous said they we...

December 2011 – Square Enix / Trion Worlds

Two minor data breaches affected video game developers Square Enix Final Fantasy and Trion Worlds Rift late last year, allegedly spilling sensitive information from the company’s servers. The attack against Square Enix hit 1.8 million users – mostly North American and Japanese customers who signe...

June 2011 – Epic Games & Codemasters Hacks

Happening almost simultaneously with the hacks at Nintendo, Bethesda, and other firms, the Epic Games hack spilled email addresses and encrypted passwords online and prompted the company to reset all of its users’ passwords. Codemasters had it bad too: their breach exposed the personal informatio...

June 2011 – Nintendo, Bethesda Softworks, Minecraft, EVE Online, League of Legends

A cadre of video game companies including Bethesda Softworks, Minecraft and Nintendo was targeted in June when the hacktivist group Lulzsec raided servers belonging to the firms. Bethesda had information on about 200,000 users of its Brink video game pilfered – but not released. Servers at...

June 2011 – Bioware hacked, EA info compromised

Electronic Arts’ Bioware, creators of MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic and the popular Mass Effect and Dragon Age series had a hacker infiltrate a decade-old server that was hosting the Neverwinter Nights forums in June, 2011. While no social security numbers or credit cards were compromised, E...

April 2011 – Sony PSN

Executives at Sony probably didn’t anticipate that a lawsuit against technology whiz kid George Hotz would end up backfiring as spectacularly as it did. The missing ingredient? The hacktivist group Anonymous, which adopted Hotz as a cause célèbre and retaliated with an attack on Sony’s Play Stati...

A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 5: Justifying an Investment in AppSec

This post is the last in a 5-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec”. This blog post series has examined the growing threats to software, defined the components of a sound AppSec program, described an evolutionary path to AppSec maturity, and considered a number of tools and technologies...

Kickstarter Data Breach Publishes 70,000 Startup Ideas

An application programming interface API error on the popular Kickstarter crowdfunding website exposed the plans and descriptions of more than 70,000 yet-to-be launched projects. The API bug exposed project descriptions, goals, durations, rewards, videos, images, locations, categories, and...

Bogus Report: 55,000 Twitter accounts compromised

Bogus Report: 55,000 Twitter accounts compromised Thousands of Twitter passwords were exposed this week and the site was looking into matter. According to a message posted on Twitter's Japanese blog, None of the recently leaked Twitter logins and passwords came from within the company. Twitter ha...

A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 4: Weighing AppSec Technology Options

This post is the fourth in a 5-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec”. The series will define the components of a sound AppSec program, delineate the growing threats to software, weigh the costs of a data breach, and outline the CISO’s responsibility in managing software security risk...

FEMA: State, Local Officials Not Prepared to Respond to Cyberattack

A report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA finds that state and local government officials in the U.S. are pessimistic about their ability to respond to a cyberattacks. The National Preparedness Report NPR was commissioned by the Obama Administration. It found that, although the...