Chip and PIN EMV Protocol security vulnerabilities found

Chip-and-PIN payment cards are coming to the United States after a long head start as a standard card-present payment method in Europe and Asia. Already, retailer Target accelerated its plan to move its branded debit and credit cards to chip-and-PIN, also known as EMV Europay, MasterCard and Visa...

eBay Compromised in Data Breach, Urges Password Change

The online retail and auction giant eBay will be asking its customers to change their passwords later today because of a cyberattack that compromised a server containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial information. The company says it does not believe that there has been any...

eBay Hacked, Change your Account Password Now

If you have an eBay Account then you should change your password immediately, because the World's biggest E-commerce company with 128 million active users announced today in a press release that it had been Hacked. eBay revealed that attackers compromised customers' database including emails,...

Privileged User Access Lacking Trust But Verify

Jerome Kerviel, Terry Childs, Edward Snowden: All infamous insiders; all reviled to differing degrees for abusing their access to computer-based resources. And likely, all of them could have been stopped if their respective employers had a better grasp on what these privileged users were doing. N...

Anymacro 邮件系统最新版SQL注入漏洞造成邮件泄露（通杀所有邮件服务器）

简要描述： 疯狗叔叔、Finger xsser ，我还有几枚怎么不帮我审核了？ 详细说明： 疯狗叔叔、Finger xsser ，我还有几枚怎么不帮我审核了？ 0x001 背景 anymacro已经被列入奖励名单了。 0x001 背景 anymacro是国内较流行的一家企业级邮箱系统，客户主要为教育/政府机构。 今天所发现的SQL注入影响所有Anymacro所有邮件系统。 例如近期项目，都是超大企业或者是单位： 安宁中标中国航天科技集团邮件系统建设项目 安宁承接中国海关总署邮件系统项目 安宁中标中国社科院邮件系统项目 安宁中标中国外交部邮件系统建设项目 安宁中标中国光大银行邮件系统项目...

Points of Sale Poorly Secured, Facing Sophisticated Attacks

The point-of-sale PoS systems on which financial transactions are conducted at nearly every physical retail location in the U.S. and and beyond are fast becoming a favorite target for sophisticated criminal organizations as well as standalone attackers. The emergence of this trend is unsurprising...

Snapchat Settles With FTC Over Privacy and Security Concerns

Snapachat, the maker of the popular video and photo chat app, has agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that the company misrepresented the supposedly ephemeral nature of the messages users send and failed to take adequate security precautions with the data it collects, leading...

US Navy's Nuclear Reactor System Administrator Arrested on Hacking Charges

The United States charged two men for their involvement in a conspiracy to hack into the computer systems of dozens of government and commercial organizations, including the U.S. Navy and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tulsa. On Monday, the...

France Telecom Orange Hacked Again, Personal Details of 1.3 Million Customers Stolen

French leading telecommunications company 'Orange' hit by second major data breach of its kind in a matter of months. Company announced that hackers have stolen personal data of 1.3 million customers of its online portal. ORANGE HACKED SECOND TIME IN THREE MONTHS Hackers have stolen a “limited...

White House Calls for Transparency from Data Brokers

The White House redirected attention away from the data collection efforts of the intelligence community yesterday with the release of a report that urged data brokers to be more transparent about their own data harvesting. Companies such as Facebook, Google and others make a living collecting th...

Target Accelerates Chip-and-Pin Roll Out, Hires New CIO

As Target continues to deal with the consequences of its massive data breach last year, the company is accelerating plans to move to a full chip-and-pin system for its branded credit and debit cards, and also plans to have terminals capable of accepting chip-and-pin cards in all of its nearly 2,0...

"4chan Hacked", Most Popular Image-Bulletin Board Compromised

The founder of 4chan, Christopher Poole, aka “moot” has confirmed few hours ago, in a blog post that the popular image-based bulletin board was hacked. The attacker gained access to the administrative functions and successfully hacked into one of 4chan’s database by exploiting a website's softwar...

AOL Hit by Massive Data Breach, Urges Users to Change Passwords

If you are a user of the American On-Line AOL mail service then you are advised to change your password as soon as possible. AOL Inc. on Monday confirmed the company suffered a massive data breach that may have affected a "significant number" of email accounts. The company has issued a warning to...

Iowa State Hacked--To Mine Bitcoins

It’s an odd week these days when there isn’t a data breach at some university or college. These institutions are prime targets for attackers for several reasons, not the least of which are their open network environments and databases bulging with personal information. But now attackers are looki...

2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

Most of us—hopefully—awaken every day, shower and brush our teeth. If you own a home, you patch a leaky roof and paint the shutters so they don’t rot. You own a vehicle, you change the oil when you’re supposed to and make sure the brakes work the way they’re supposed to. It’s simple hygiene. Yet ...

2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

The attention given to the Target data breach elevated concerns about point-of-sale hacks and got us reacquainted with RAM scrapers and other threats to retailers big and small. And while it’s been a noteworthy highlight to the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for the past few...

3 Million Cards Implicated in Michaels Breach

Nearly four months after it first reported it was investigating a data breach, the arts and crafts retail chain Michaels confirmed yesterday that most of its U.S. stores were compromised on and off for eight months and that payment card information of nearly three million of its customers may hav...

19-Year-Old Teenager Arrested for Exploiting Heartbleed Bug to Steal Data

A teenager has been arrested by the Canadian police in relation to the infamous malicious breach on the country's taxpayer system using one of the most critical internet flaws, Heartbleed. Heartbleed bug, that made headlines over past two weeks and every websites around the world flooded with its...

Sophos Antivirus for vShield OpenSSL TLS心跳信息泄漏漏洞

CVE ID:CVE-2014-0160 Sophos Antivirus是一款防病毒应用程序。 Sophos Antivirus for vShield所绑定的OpenSSL存在安全漏洞，OpenSSL处理TLS”心跳“扩展存在一个边界错误，允许攻击者利用漏洞获取64k大小的已链接客户端或服务器的内存内容。内存信息可包括私钥，用户名密码等。 0 Sophos Antivirus for vShield 1.0 Sophos Antivirus for vShield 1.1 目前没有详细解决方案： http://www.sophos.com...

Hardware Maker LaCie Admits Yearlong Data Breach

The French computer hardware company LaCie, perhaps best known for their external hard drives, announced this week it fell victim to a data breach that may have put at risk the sensitive information of anyone who has purchased a product off their website during the last year. According to an...