RockYou Agrees to $250K FTC Fine Over Loss Of 32m Passwords

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it had reached a settlement with RockYou over violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA after the Web site allowed hackers to gain access to the personal information of its 32 million members. In a statement published o...

Climategate 2.0? Popular Climate Blog Hacked, E-mails, Passwords Leaked

The website of Skeptical Science, a blog that is critical of climate change skeptics, was hacked over the weekend, and users’ e-mails, passwords and IP addresses were taken, according to a post on the site Sunday. The bulk of the site’s database was taken, uploaded to a Russian website and linked...

Chinese hacker arrested for leaking 6 million logins from CSDN

In the biggest hacking case in China's Internet history, police have arrested a man suspected of leaking personal information about more than six million users. The suspect, surnamed Zeng, was nabbed in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on February 4 after an investigation into the case,...

Verizon: Hacktivists Steal Most Data In 2011

It can be hard to parse the results of the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR, what with the shifts from year to year in the sources of breach data collected. Last year’s report, if you recall, found a stunning drop in incidents of data theft in 2010, even as tracking sites like...

Data Breach at University of Tampa Posted Information of 30K Online

A breach at the University of Tampa may have exposed the sensitive information of thousands of students, faculty and staff members, including their names, identification numbers, social security numbers and birth dates, according to a press release posted to their the University’s Web site over t...

BlueCross BlueShield to Pay $1.5m for HIPAA Violation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee agreed to pony up $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS for a HIPAA violation in 2009, according to a ComputerWorld report. This payment is the settlement of a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack The FBI has revealed that there were $700,000 worth of fraudulent credit card charges after hacktivist group Anonymous stole nearly 200 gigabytes of data, including credit card numbers, from security firm Stratfor. Anonymous...

Adult Site DigitalPlayground.com Hacked: Credit Card Info on 40K Exposed

The adult Web site DigitalPlayground.com was hacked. A group calling itself TheConsortium has claimed credit for the attack, saying it stole credit card information on 40,000 paying customers and even listened in on a company conference call. The compromise occurred on March 4, according to a...

King of Hacks? Sony Breach May Have Yielded Thousands of Michael Jackson Songs

Parts of pop icon Michael Jackson’s discography, possibly his entire back catalog, have allegedly been stolen from Sony Music by hackers, according to a report from BBC this morning. It’s uncertain exactly how many songs were stolen. According to a report from The Guardian, hackers pilfered more...

Ubuntu 'ubuntuone-couch'包SSL证书校验信息泄露漏洞

Ubuntu是一款基于linux内核的操作系统 ubuntuone-couch使用python-httplib2，但是0.7.0之前的python-httplib2没有对服务器证书进行校验，可导致中间人攻击获得或更改敏感数据 0 Ubuntu ubuntuone-couch Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 11.10 i386 Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 11.10 amd64 厂商解决方案 用户可参考如下供应商提供的安全公告获得补丁信息：...

RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect

Right on cue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry. With the annual RSA Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen...

Philips, Police Looking Into Breach, 200K Email Addresses Leaked

Add electronics giant Philips to the list of companies that have suffered data breaches over the last year. The company had a server containing a variety of information, including 200,000 e-mail addresses, compromised earlier this month, according to a report from the UK’s V3. The report cites a...

Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Months in Jail

A 26-year-old Briton was sentenced to eight months for hacking Facebook in 2011. Glenn Mangham was sentenced to jail Feb. 17 by a British Court. According to the Daily Mail, Mangham impersonated a Facebook employee and hacked into three of the company’s servers. He was then able to obtain...

Stratfor Subscribers Experience Phishing Attempts

Cybercriminals continue targeting customers of Stratfor, the well-known, Texas-based security and policy think-tank hacked by Anonymous on Christmas, according to a TechNet report. Social engineers have been sending malicious and fraudulent emails to Strafor subscribers since their customer...

Al Jazeera news network hacked by Syrian Hackers

Al Jazeera news network hacked by Syrian Hackers Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera's website was hacked last week by a Syrian hacktivist group in support of the government's actions in the country. Aljazeera is broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and...

United States Census Bureau Hacked and Vulnerability Exposed

United States Census Bureau Hacked and Vulnerability Exposed A Group of Hackers from r00tw0rm found SQL injection Vulnerability on United States Census Bureau,0x3a,user\,0x3a,database\,4,5,groupconcat\tablename+from+informationschema.tables--+ and Hackers successfully exploit the Database and...

After Damaging Reports, Electronics Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Is Hacked

Members of an online hacking group that calls itself SwaggSec say they hacked systems belonging to Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn and made off with login credentials belonging to some of the company’s biggest clients. Foxconn has declined to comment. The incident comes in the wak...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call

Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call Earlier today, Anonymous released a confidential conference call between the FBI and law enforcement officers in the UK. The 16-minute call discusses ongoing investigations into hackers associated with Anonymous, AntiSec, and LulzSec. From all...

Update: Verisign Admits To Security Breaches in 2010

Verisign, the Internet security company responsible for management of the .COM domain, told federal regulators that it was the victim of several successful attacks in 2010, but that those incidents were not reported to the company’s management until September, 2011. The news was first reported by...