Former Employee Charged With Accessing Thousands of Driver's Licenses

A former Minnesota state employee was charged Thursday with misdemeanors for allegedly accessing thousands of driver’s licenses during a four-year period and storing 172 of them in an encrypted file. Ninety percent of victims in the data breach were women. John A. Hunt, 48, of Woodbury, Minn.,...

Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

PokerAgent botnet stole over 16,000 Facebook credentials

PokerAgent botnet was discovered in 2012 by ESET Security Research Lab, which is a Trojan horse designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats. According to latest report, the botnet i...

Team GhostShell Exposes 700k accounts from African universities and businesses

The Hacktivist group Team GhostShell today exposes data including 700,000 accounts / records from African universities and businesses during a campaign named ProjectSunRise. Hacker mention, "GhostShell's new project focuses on Africa, mainly, for the time being, South Africa and to some extent...

Sony Fined £250,000 By UK Over Failures in PlayStation Network Breach

Nearly two years after attackers began what turned out to be a long series of intrusions at Sony, most notably with the PlayStation Network data breach, authorities in the U.K. have fined the company the equivalent of almost $400,000 for not being careful enough with customer data. The Sony PSN...

Paypal Bug Bounty #10 - Persistent Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Paypal Bug Bounty 10 - Persistent Web Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=647 PayPal UID: ixb165sfi Release Date: ============= 2013-01-23 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

College Student Expelled After Bringing Web Vulnerability to School's Attention

A Canadian college student was expelled after reporting a vulnerability in the school’s Web site that potentially exposed private data on more than 250,000 students. The high-achieving computer science major, Hamed Al-Khabaz and another student, Ovidiu Mija, in November were developing a mobile a...

'Terrific Employee' Fired After Losing USB Drive Containing Medical Records

A Maine-based company announced Thursday it fired an otherwise exemplary employee who dowloaded medical data onto a jump drive and then lost the device while traveling between Salt Lake City, Denver and Washington, D.C. The unidentified woman’s termination follows yesterday’s disclosure of a data...

Precision Bouncer List Phishing Kits Keep Targets Inside the Ropes

Just when you thought phishers had exhausted all avenues of innovation, a new tactic has emerged in attacks against financial institutions bringing the level of targeting and geo-filtering to precise new levels. Dubbed bouncer list phishing by RSA Security, these attack kits are built off stolen...

Zaxby's Chicken Chain Warns of Possible Credit Card Thefts

At least 100 restaurants’ customers are at risk of credit and debit card fraud after a U.S. fast food chain announced it’s found data-swiping malware on some of its franchises’ computer hard drives. Zaxby’s Franchising, Inc. alerted customers via a news release that credit card processing compani...

South Carolina Data Breach Survey Results on Residents' Attitudes

Coalfire recently conducted a survey of South Carolina residents who were victims of the recent data breach at the Department of Revenue. The data breach affected residents of the State who had filed their taxes online exposing 3.8 million taxpayer Social Security numbers and nearly 400,000 credi...

Official Debian and Python Wiki Servers Compromised

Administration from Debian and Python project official websites confirmed that their WIKI servers were compromised by some unknown hackers recently. Hackers was able to hack because of several vulnerabilities in "moin" package. According to Brian Curtin at Python Project, Hacker user some unknown...

Kaiser Permanente Case Underscores Due Diligence Requirement

California and U.S. authorities are investigating whether Kaiser Permanente violated some 300,000 patients’ privacy when dealing with a Mom and Pop document storage company that kept medical records in a shared warehouse and stored sensitive data on home computers. The investigation, according to...

Non-profit Hospice Hit with Large Fine for Small Data Breach

An Idaho non-profit hospice has been fined $50,000 for losing a laptop containing unencrypted data on 441 patients. The laptop was stolen in February 2011 from a hospice worker’s car and never retrieved, according to news accounts. But Hospice of North Idaho officials say there is no evidence the...

University of Michigan Health Systems Admits Patient Data Stolen

UPDATE – Some 4,000 University of Michigan Health Systems patients had their medical data compromised last month when a vendor’s laptop containing medication log files was stolen from a vehicle. That medication management provider, Mountain View, Calif.-based Omnicell, admits it violated both its...

Yahoo data leak by Virus_Hima, Why do we need a proactive security?

In November I was contacted for first time by the Egyptian Hacker named ViruSHimA who announced me to have hacked into Adobe servers and leaked private data. The hacker violated Adobe servers gaining full access and dumping the entire database with more of 150,000 emails and hashed passwords of...

Samsung Exynos kernel exploit offer Root without Flashing

A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching through Samsung Exynos kernels and has found one whopper of an exploit. There’s both good and bad news with this exploit so head down below for more details on this new found glory. This exploits affects a number of Samsung-made devices,...

Accused UGA Hacker committed suicide

A former University of Georgia UGA student under investigation for allegedly hacking into the school's computerized personnel records system committed suicide last month. Stell attended classes at UGA between 2005 and 2007. The Data breach was carried out around two months back near 15th October...

Accused UGA Hacker committed suicide

A former University of Georgia UGA student under investigation for allegedly hacking into the school’s computerized personnel records system committed suicide last month. Stell attended classes at UGA between 2005 and 2007. The Data breach was carried out around two months back near 15th October...

Hacker ruined Australian military security in 3 Minutes

Some 22,300 purported student and staff records held by the Australian Defence Force Academy were stolen and published online last month. A member of the Anonymous group, known as Darwinaire, is claiming responsibility for the theft. The systems were compromised in November, with UNSW notifying...