Drupal resets 1 Million Passwords after Data Breach

A Drupal data breach was announced by the official Drupal Association, that Passwords for almost one million accounts on the Drupal.org website are being reset after hackers gained unauthorized access to sensitive user data. The security of the open source content management system has been...

Drupal.org Resets Passwords After Data Breach

The Drupal Association is urging all users of Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion that breached files holding usernames, e-mail addresses, countries and hashed passwords. Sites that run on Drupal do not appear to be impacted, though the...

Thousands of DHS Personnel Notified of Data Breach

The Department of Homeland Security this week began notifying up to tens of thousands of employees, contractors and others with a DHS security clearance that their personal data may be at risk. The notifications began on Monday, according to an online statement, after officials learned of a...

Reporters legally threatened after revealing vulnerability that exposes sensitive data of 170,000 customers

For millions of low income families, the federal government's Lifeline program offers affordable phone service. But an online security lapse has exposed tens of thousands of them to an increased risk of identity theft, after their Social Security numbers, birth dates and other pieces of highly...

Scripps Reporters Accused of Hacking Lifeline Data Breach

Investigative reporters for the Scripps news service have been threatened with legal action after informing a telecommunications company that confidential data on tens of thousands of applicants was available on the Internet. The reporters were said to be looking into companies participating in...

22 million Yahoo IDs stolen from their Japanese Server

22 million Yahoo! Japan's user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Japan portal. “We don’t know if the file of 22 million user IDs was leaked or not, but we can't deny the possibility given the volume of traffic between our server and...

Washington Court Data Breach Exposes 160K SSNs

Attackers using a vulnerability in Adobe’s ColdFusion app server were able to compromise servers belonging to the Washington State court system sometime in the last few months and walked off with data belonging to as many as a million residents of the state. The attackers had access to 160,000...

Name.com Data Breach Forces Password Breach

Domain registrar Name.com has informed its customers via email of a data breach and asked them to reset their passwords. The company, based in Denver, said it discovered a breach and customer account information such as encrypted credentials and credit card numbers may have been accessed along wi...

Reputation.com Notifies Customers of Network Attack

A company known for burying bad information to improve its customers’ online images let everyone know this week its network was hacked. Reputation.com sent e-mails to thousands of customers in more than 100 countries to let them know of the attack. In a message sent earlier this week, the company...

Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised by Chinese Hackers

U.S. intelligence agencies traced a recent cyber intrusion into U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabilities in U.S. dams. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams contains information about 79,000 dams throughout the country and tracks such...

LivingSocial Ups its Password Encryption After Breach

The popular daily deal site LivingSocial announced Monday it has abandoned the SHA1 hash for Blowfish’s bcrypt following a massive data breach that impacted 50 million customers. The company confirmed last weekend that its computer systems were attacked and thieves gained access to names, e-mail...

Verizon DBIR 2013: Months Pass Before Attacks Detected

It’s a familiar refrain: Attackers often have months of unfettered access to corporate networks; and security and network managers remain in the dark until they’re notified of serious breaches by third parties. Enterprises, regardless of industry, dread that fateful knock on the door by the FBI,...

Verizon DBIR 2013 Quantifies Cyberespionage Attacks

Targeted cyberespionage attacks have dominated discussions within the security community and outside of it from the mainstream media to the halls of the executive and legislative branches of government. But until now, discussions about attacks stemming from China that target intellectual property...

Social Engineering Skype Support team to hack any account instantly

You can install the industry’s strongest and most expensive firewall. You can educate employees about basic security procedures and the importance of choosing strong passwords. You can even lock-down the server room, but how do you protect a company from the threat of social engineering attacks?...

AMI Firmware Source Code, Private Key Leaked

Source code and a private signing key for firmware manufactured by a popular PC hardware maker American Megatrends Inc. AMI have been found on an open FTP server hosted in Taiwan. Researcher Brandan Wilson found the company’s data hosted on an unnamed vendor’s FTP server. Among the vendor’s...

One Percent of User Base Exposed in Scribd Data Breach

Document-sharing website Scribd announced this week it was hacked, the victim of what it’s calling a “deliberate attempt to access the email addresses and passwords of registered Scribd users.” In a post on the Support Desk section of its website, the San Francisco-based service claims it noticed...

LinkedIn Patches XSS and CSRF Vulnerabilities

LinkedIn has patched a number of exploitable vulnerabilities that could have led to phishing attacks, malware infections and the loss of credentials for users of the social network for business professionals. Researchers at Internet Security Auditors in Spain reported the vulnerabilities to...

CVE-2013-1835

Moodle 2.x (2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.8, 2.3.x before 2.3.5, 2.4.x before 2.4.2) is affected by CVE-2013-1835. The issue allows remote authenticated administrators to obtain sensitive information from the external repositories of arbitrary users by abusing the login_as feature. The core vulnerabil...

HP LaserJet Pro Printers Unauthorized Data Access

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AT&T Hacker Andrew Auernheimer sentenced to 3.5 Years in prison

Self-described troll and Grey hat AT&T Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago, and releasing thousands of iPad owners email addresses. According to authorities, they obtained the ICC-ID and e-mail addres...