IRS Releases Fourth Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the fourth in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. This tip focuses on protecting your passwords. Recommendations include creating longer and more complex passwords, not using the same...

IRS Releases Second Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the second in a series of tips intended to increase public awareness of how to protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. US-CERT and IRS recommend...

IRS Releases First in a Series of Tax Security Tips

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the first in a series of tips intended to increase public awareness of how to protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. The first tip focuses on seve...

15-year-old Boy Arrested in connection with TalkTalk Cyber Attack

The arrest is the first major outcome since TalkTalk – the biggest phone and broadband provider in the UK with more than 4 Million customers – had suffered a serious data breach. The Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI and the investigating officers from the Metropolitan police's cyber crime...

Shopify: Unauthorized access to any Store Admin's First & Last name

This issue allowed unauthenticated users to access personally identifiable information of the store's staff members first and last name via a public api endpoint...

The Clock is ticking for EU and US to Negotiate New Safe Harbor Deal: What You Can Do to Stay Out of Legal Limbo

European authorities have given the European Union and US officials three months to come up with an alternative to the Safe Harbor agreement after the European Court of Justice ECJ declared Safe Harbor laws invalid earlier this month. The new agreement must protect the personal data of European...

iOS 9 Hack: How to Access Private Photos and Contacts Without a Passcode

Setting a passcode on your iPhone is the first line of defense to help prevent other people from accessing your device. However, it's pretty easy for anyone to access your personal photographs and contacts from your iPhone running iOS 9 in just 30 seconds or less, even with a passcode and/or Touc...

AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers

We at The Hacker News are big fans of Security Software – The first thing we install while setting our Computers and Devices. Thanks to Free Security Software that protects Internet users without paying for their security. But, Remember: Nothing comes for FREE "Free" is just a relative term, as o...

CVE-2015-4980

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Commerce 7.0.0.6 through 7.0.0.9 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive personal information via unknown vectors...

Ashley Madison Hacker – An Insider Woman Employee?

"Ashley Madison was not hacked!" This is what declared by John McAfee, former founder of antivirus software company McAfee. So far everyone must be aware of Ashley Madison massive data breach. Last week, the hackers, who called themselves Impact Team, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of...

The vulnerability of the Moodle learning management system allows a hacker to gain access to personal contact information and details about unread messages.

The vulnerability of the Moodle learning management system’s sub-component message/index.php is related to the lack of protection for administrative data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain access to personal contact information and details...

Oops! Adult Dating Website Ashley Madison Hacked; 37 Million Accounts Affected

"Life is short. Have an affair," but always remember "Cheaters never prosper." AshleyMadison.com, an American most prominent dating website, that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, potentially putting very private details of Millions of its users at risk of being exposed...

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...

OS X crash reports may contain entered key press information — Mozilla

Mozilla developer David Parks discovered while reviewing Firefox crash reports that personal data can sometimes be contained in reports from OS X systems. This is because these OS X crash reports will contain the native key that triggered the crash and this can sometimes contain key press...

Samsung's Swift Keyboard Update Mechanism Exposes 600M Devices

The Swift keyboard, installed by default on Samsung Android mobiles, exposes devices to a host of remote attacks that could be executed by attackers ranging from criminals sitting man-in-the-middle on local Wi-Fi networks, to a state actor in an upstream position at an ISP or backbone. NowSecure...

Vulnerability in Moodle 'message/index.php'

Moodle is a free, open-source e-learning software platform, also known as a course management system, learning management system or virtual learning environment. A security vulnerability exists in the Moodle 'message/index.php' script. Due to the program failing to properly check the...

CVE-2014-6211

The command-line scripts in IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.0 through 6.0.0.11, 7.0 through 7.0.0.9, and 7.0 Feature Pack 2 through 8, when debugging is configured, do not properly restrict the logging of personal data, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a log file...

Command injection

The command-line scripts in IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.0 through 6.0.0.11, 7.0 through 7.0.0.9, and 7.0 Feature Pack 2 through 8, when debugging is configured, do not properly restrict the logging of personal data, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a log file...

CVE-2014-6211

The command-line scripts in IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.0 through 6.0.0.11, 7.0 through 7.0.0.9, and 7.0 Feature Pack 2 through 8, when debugging is configured, do not properly restrict the logging of personal data, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a log file...

CVE-2014-6211

CVE-2014-6211 affects IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.0–6.0.0.11, 7.0–7.0.0.9, and 7.0 Feature Pack 2–8. When debugging is enabled, logging is not properly restricted for personal data, allowing local users to read sensitive information from log files. Exploitation details are not provided in the suppli...