UAMS Alerts Patients to Data Breach Linked to Fired Resident

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is letting some 1,500 patients know their information was kept without permission by a resident physician after she was terminated. The health care facility plans to mail impacted patients who had surgery or were seen by a neurosurgeon from January ...

3.6 Million South Carolina Taxpayers at Risk of ID Theft

State officials are warning South Carolina taxpayers that 3.6 million Social Security numbers and other personal data was exposed in a recent attack on Department of Revenue servers. Anyone who filed a state return since 1998 are asked to call 866 578-5422 or visit protectmyid.com/scdor. The stat...

Dorifel Malware Encrypts Files, Steals Financial Data, May Be Related to Zeus or Citadel

While much of the world was focused yesterday on the Gauss malware saga, there was another interesting infection happening, mainly in the Netherlands, that researchers think may be related to the Zeus and Citadel attacks, though the motivation behind the attack is somewhat of a mystery. The new...

Blizzard Account Holders Urged to Change Passwords After Breach

Video game publisher Blizzard, makers of Diablo III, World of Warcraft and other wildly popular games, is urging account holders on North American servers to change their passwords after the company’s security team this week discovered someone illegally accessed the internal network. “At this tim...

International Cyber Crime Takedown Said to Be Largest of Its Kind

A two-year undercover operation today netted two dozen arrests in eight countries in what federal authorities say is the largest coordinated international takedown in history directed at those who traffic stolen financial data through online forums. The investigation uncovered 411,000 compromised...

Every day buy UC_KEY not initialize the security risks and patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Every day buy integrated ucenter one-stop login api,but UCkey not initialized will cause the attacker can log in to any account,or even operate the credit card information. Detailed description: $get = $post = array; $code = @$GET'code'; //get the token parsestrauthcode$code, 'DECODE', UCKEY, $ge...

50K Cards Compromised using Credit Card Processor

50K Cards Compromised using Credit Card Processor Some 50,000 credit and debit cardholders may have their information exposed following a security breach at Global Payments. The breach occurred sometime between between Jan. 21, 2012 and Feb. 25, 2012. Both Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they...

What is Zeus - Technical paper Zeus by SophosLabs !

What is Zeus - Technical paper Zeus by SophosLabs ! Zeus or Zbot is one of the most notorious and widely-spread information stealing Trojans in existence. Zeus is primarily targeted at financial data theft; its effectiveness has lead to the loss of millions worldwide. The spectrum of those...

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details !

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details ! The FBI is reportedly investigating after hackers broke into Simon Cowell's computer network. Details of more than 250,000 X Factor entrants are said to have been stolen and Simon and bosses at American TV network Fox, are said to be scared that the thieve...

Insider Allegedly Leaked Data Belonging to 3,000 US Airways Pilots

An insider data breach at the US Airline Pilots Association USAPA has exposed the sensitive financial data of some 3,000 US Airways pilots, according to reports. The USAPA, a union representing more than 5,000 US Airways pilots, claims that the airline recently became aware of an incident in whic...

Expert: Three Quarters of Employees Duped by Phishing Scams

In the wake of the data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon, the specter looms of widespread phishing attacks on hundreds of millions of e-mail users whose information was stolen from the firm. But according to Aaron Higbee, the Chief Technology Officer at Intrepidus Group, organizations had...

Banking Fraud Now Almost Exclusively Occurring Online

A new study of small to mid-sized businesses shows that 75% of banking fraud is now taking place online according to a report from InformationWeek. The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study, commissioned by Guardian Analytics and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found that 56% of the companies in...

Lost BP Laptop Contains Financial Information on Thousands of Gulf Oil Spill Victims

Almost a year has passed since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and spewed three months of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But less than six months after the beleaguered oil giant managed to cap that well, it is contending with a new spill of a different sort: the loss of personal information ...

Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law

UPDATE: The Massachusetts Attorney General has been notified that financial data on 1,800 residents were exposed in a database breach linked to CitySights NY, a sightseeing firm. The case could set the stage for enforcement of the State’s nine month-old data privacy law.Financial data on 1,850...

Forum for Data Fraudsters, Criminals Hacked

Carders.cc, a German online forum dedicated to helping criminals trade and sell financial data stolen through hacking, has itself been hacked. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Zeus Trojan Now Has Hardware Licensing Scheme

The authors of the Zeus bot client, perhaps the most popular and pervasive piece of malware of its kind right now, have taken an extraordinary step to protect their creation: inserting a hardware-based licensing scheme into the Trojan. This represents a significant leap in the sophistication and...

RSA 2010: BlackEnergy 2 Botnet Revealed

Like the sequel to a successful movie, the botnet behind the distributed denial of service attacks that hit the country of Georgia during its conflict with Russia in 2008 has been updated. This time though, the idea isn’t hacktivism—it’s stealing financial data and, unlike in the case of other...

iPhone Worm Was Simple, Yet Effective, Analysis Shows

The iKee worm that was infecting jailbroken iPhones last month was a simple, yet effective, piece of software that shows how easy it might be for an attacker to create a fairly large, functioning botnet comprising mobile devices, an analysis of the worm shows. Researchers at SRI International’s...

ID Theft Gang Using Amazon's EC2 as Command and Control Server

Security researchers have intercepted a new variant of the Zeus crimeware using Amazon’s EC2 services to command and control the botnet. The cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon’s RDS managed database hosting service as a backend alternative in case they lose access to the original domain,...

Malware Flea Market Pays Hackers to Hijack PCs

Among a slew of online cybercrime forums, Pay-Per-Install.org stands out as a malware flea market where shadowy pushers of Trojan downloaders and tools for evading detection are bargaining with thousands of would-be “affiliates” willing to compromise victims’ computers globally and get paid for i...