South Carolina Data Breach Casts Spotlight on Lack of Encryption, Stolen Credentials

South Carolina governor Nikki Haley said a mouthful this week when she spilled a dirty industry secret that Social Security numbers are generally not encrypted by state agencies. Reeling from a Department of Revenue data breach that leaked 3.6 million Social Security and credit card numbers as we...

Trouble for Borderlands 2 Players

Some XBOX Live users have violated the online gaming platform’s code of conduct by using a malicious application that allowed them to permanently kill off the characters of other players in the popular ‘Borderlands 2’ video game. On a forum run by the game’s software developer Gearbox, a communit...

3.6 Million South Carolina Taxpayers at Risk of ID Theft

State officials are warning South Carolina taxpayers that 3.6 million Social Security numbers and other personal data was exposed in a recent attack on Department of Revenue servers. Anyone who filed a state return since 1998 are asked to call 866 578-5422 or visit protectmyid.com/scdor. The stat...

Attorneys Warn of Increased Risk of Big Data Breach Lawsuits

Two attorneys for a prominent law firm warn that courts are starting to look more favorably on class-action lawsuits brought by data breach victims, who historically have had trouble proving actual damages from the thefts. “A recent survey of data breach litigation found that the average settleme...

Hackers stole Credit Card details from 63 'Barnes & Noble' stores

Over 60 Barnes & Noble stores have been used by hackers to gain the credit card data, including the PINs, of customers. The New York company is warning customers to check for unauthorized transactions and to change their personal identification numbers or PINs. It hasn't said how many accounts ma...

Judge Rules Against Consumers' Claims in PlayStation Hack Lawsuit

A Southern California judge has rejected several key claims in a class-action lawsuit filed in response to Sony’s handling last year of a data breach that left millions of users at risk. In a ruling released by Courthousenews.com, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia ruled users did not ha...

Verizon DBIR Analysis: Opportunistic Attacks Crushing Certain Industries

Regardless of the market or industry, the majority of attacks are financially motivated. Even in data-rich environments such as health care, attackers are still after profits and exploit the same weaknesses and transaction processing systems that are vulnerable in other industries such as hotels...

Capitol Hill Rhetoric Takes Aim at Wrong Cybersecurity Targets

Defense secretary Leon Panetta couldn’t resist, could he? He couldn’t fight the urge to dig deep into the information security cliché handbook and yank out that old chestnut about a Cyber Pearl Harbor. Seriously, is there a more cringe-inducing, FUD-filled phrase than Cyber Pearl Harbor? Never mi...

More than 300,000 at Risk After Major Breach at Florida College

A security breach initially believed contained to about 50 employee records now appears to involve almost 300,000 students, faculty and employees at a Florida college. Officials at Northwest Florida State College in Niceville today confirmed a massive data breach and hundreds of thousands of stol...

Toshiba ConfigFree CF7 File Stack Buffer Overflow (Comment Field

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Toshiba ConfigFree CF7 File Stack Buffer Overflow Comment Field | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Summary ======= There is a stack buffer overflow...

100k IEEE site Plain-Text Passwords found on Public FTP

A Romanian researcher - Radu Drăgușin found that 100000 usernames and passwords of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE was stored in plaint-text on a publicly accessible FTP server. According to him, on Sept. 18 he first discovered a log with usernames and passwords in...

Researcher Finds 100k IEEE.org Passwords Stored in Plain-Text on Public FTP Server

A Romanian computer scientist discovered that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE was storing its members’ usernames and passwords in plaint-text on a publically accessible file transfer protocol FTP server. Radu Drăgușin claims the collection of nearly 100,000 credentials...

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Massachusetts Hospital Agrees to Pay $1.5m After Stolen Laptop HIPAA Violation

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Boston-based hospital, agreed to pay $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HSS earlier this week, settling a HIPAA violation stemming from a 2010 incident. The agreement acknowledges that the hospital failed to comply with...

University of Miami Hospital Confirms Second Patient Info Breach This Year

The University of Miami Hospital UMH has begun to notify patients for the second time this year that some of their personal information may be at risk after the health care institution was hit with a data breach in July. According to a letter being sent to patients this month, two employees at th...

Puzzle Solver Uncovers Apple UDID Breach Source

When David Schuetz woke up last Friday, little did he think he’d be a central figure in clearing the FBI’s good name, much less end up on the NBC Nightly News, but that’s exactly what happened. Schuetz, a senior consultant with Intrepidus Group, put his best detective hat on last week and pieced...

Florida Digital Publisher Says It's the Source of Apple UDID Leak

The chief executive of a Florida-based digital publisher said Monday he believes his company is the source of a data leak of a million Apple unique device IDs — not the FBI as a hacktivist group claimed. “A little more than a week ago, BlueToad was the victim of a criminal cyber attack, which...

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Sony Mobile website hacked by NullCrew

Another Cyber attack on Sony this year, Hacking group called "NullCrew" hack into one of the biggest site of Sony mobile website www.sonymobile.com and leak complete database on Internet. Nullcrew releasing their hack dumps from their official twitter account @OfficialNull. The dump of database...