Jail Authorities Mistakenly Early Released 3,200 Prisoners due to a Silly Software Bug

Washington State Department of Corrections DoC is facing an investigation after it early released around 3,200 prisoners over the course of 13 years, since 2002, when a bug was introduced in the software used to calculate time credits for inmates' good behavior. The software glitch led to a...

Hyatt Hotel Says Payment Systems Hacked with Credit-Card Stealing Malware

Hyatt Hotels Corporation is notifying its customers that credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen after it found malware on the computers that process customer payments. "We recently identified malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for...

Police Raid alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright's Home in Sydney

Just hours after the Australian man 'Craig Steven Wright' outed as the possible real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Australian Police raided his home in Sydney. Over 10 police officers raided Wright's home in the Sydney suburbs on Wednesday afternoon. They...

Web Hosting Service 000webhost Hacked, Information of 13 Million Leaked

Information on nearly 14 million users of 000webhost, a Lithuanian web hosting service, was spilled earlier this year when a hacker exploited an old version of the company’s website and gained access to the backend. 13.5 million customer usernames, plaintext passwords, email addresses, IP...

Misissued certificates

Security Misissued certificates Share October 29th, 2015 Recently, Google found a google.com pre-certificate in a CT log, without having ordered one. This lead to a series of incidents, also involving Opera and its security team. The backstory Google promptly contacted Symantec who had issued the...

WikiLeaks obtains CIA Director's Hacked Emails and Plans to Publish them Shortly

Breaking.... WikiLeaks, The Anti-secrecy and transparency organization, claims to have obtained the contents of CIA Director John Brennan's personal AOL email account. Also, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has promised to publish them soon on their website. Earlier this week, Brennan's...

High school Student Hacked Into CIA Director's Personal Email Account

A self-described teenage hacker has claimed to have hacked into personal AOL email account of Central Intelligence Agency CIA Director John Brennan and swiped sensitive top-secret data. It's Really a major embarrassment for Brennan as well as the CIA. The hacker, who describes himself as an...

OPM Hack Victims Still Haven't Been Notified

Millions of government workers whose information was implicated in this year’s expansive Office of Personnel Management hack still haven’t been notified, the agency revealed this week. The agency announced Tuesday that it would contact 21.5 million federal employees and contractors “later this...

Samsung smart Refrigerator presence of the vulnerability can lead to Gmail credentials theft-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The recent Internet of things and new security issues, this time security researchers from the Samsung smart fridge to extract the Gmail authentication information. The middleman steal authentication At the recent DEFCON hacking conference, hackers have made a through the middle attack to steal t...

Web.com Data Breach

Update Florida-based web hosting company Web.com on Tuesday announced that it had suffered a data breach and payment card and personal information belonging to 93,000 customers was accessed. The company did not say in a statement or press release whether the stolen data was encrypted, nor how it...

Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested by Japanese Police

Remember Mt.Gox? Once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange… ...then in early 2014, Tokyo-based Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy saying it lost some 8,50,000 Bitcoins worth $64 Million to hackers and suddenly went dark with no explanation. Last Friday, Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of...

Census Bureau Says Breach Didn't Compromise Sensitive Data

Officials at the United States Census Bureau say that the attackers who compromised one of the bureau’s databases last week did not get access to any confidential information, but only data such as names and phone numbers of organizations that submit information to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse...

Possible Breach Results in Shutdown of Many Retail Photo Services

A potential data breach at a third-party provider has resulted in the shut down of retail photo-printing services at a number of chains, including CVS, Costco, Rite Aid, and several others. The breach reportedly hit PNI Digital Media, a Canadian company that provides the online photo platform for...

OPM Hack Expands to Include Data of 21.5M People

UPDATE–The ever-expanding data breach at the Office of Personnel Management has now spread to include the Social Security numbers and other personal data of a total of 21.5 million people, and the toll also now includes the agency’s director, Katherine Archuleta, who resigned Friday morning...

Hackers Release Hacking Team Internal Documents After Breach

Attackers have compromised the network of Italian intrusion software vendor Hacking Team and released a large cache of the company’s private documents, including customer invoices that show sales to oppressive governments. The incident came to light Sunday evening when unnamed attackers released ...

Five Arrested in Zeus, SpyEye Takedown

Authorities in six different countries worked together to take down a cybercrime ring which ultimately infected tens of thousands of computers with Zeus and SpyEye malware and made off with roughly $2.25 million from banks in the process. Europol and Eurojust joined forces to take down the group,...

Europol Arrests Gang Behind Zeus And SpyEye Banking Malware

The Law enforcement agencies from six different European countries have taken down a major Ukrainian-based cyber criminals gang suspected of developing, distributing and deploying Zeus and SpyEye banking malware. According to the report on the official website of Europol, authorities have arreste...

FBI Investigating Alleged Attack on Houston Astros

In one of the more bizarre alleged hacking stories to emerge recently, federal authorities are investigating whether employees of the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into systems belonging to the Houston Astros and got access to internal team conversations about players, trades, scouting reports, and...

Adult Friend Finder... Hacked & 3.5 Million Users' Database Leaked Online

Until now, hackers have targeted companies and websites that hold your credit card details or medical information, but now they are showing interest in your sex life instead. You heard it right. Adult Friend Finder, a casual dating website with the tagline "hookup, find sex or meet someone hot...

1.1 Million Affected by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Breach

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced yesterday that attackers gained access to a single company database containing the sensitive and personal information of more than a million of its current and former health insurance customers. BlueCross BlueShield BCBS is a federation of health insurance...