Anthem Agrees to Settle 2015 Data Breach for $115 Million

Like many companies hit by data breaches, Anthem, the United States’ largest for-profit health care company, has been forced to watch from the sidelines while the incident plays out in court. An end finally appears to be in sight however. Late Friday the company agreed to settle a series of...

Employee Stole 'Yandex Search Engine' Source Code, Tried to Sell it for Just $29K

A former employee of Russian search engine Yandex allegedly stole the source code and key algorithms for its search engine site and then attempted to sell them on the black market to fund his own startup. Russian publication Kommersant reports that Dmitry Korobov downloaded a type of software...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Court Hearing Documents Email Messages on January 2, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32312 First Published: 2014 January 3 18:40 GMT Last Updated: 2014 January 7 13:33 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a court appearance notice. The text in the email message attempts to...

Adelaide Hacker Infects 2,370 Computers in Global Cyber Attack

An Adelaide hacker infected over 2,000 computers in Australia and overseas with a program designed to capture banking details, a court has heard. Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, learned hacking and programming skills online and launched his attack in 2009. He was caught when suspicious web activity w...