Utah Data Breach of 181,000 Records Blamed on Configuration Error

Nearly 200,000 people who receive benefits from the Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Plan in Utah have had their personal information–including Social Security numbers in some cases–compromised as part of an intrusion on the network at the Utah Department of Technology Services. The 181,000...

discuz! X1. 0 – X1. 5 Blind SQL injection exploit & Get Shell-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Exploit Title: discuz! X1. 0 - X1. 5 Blind SQL injection exploit &Get Shell Date: 06-04-2012 Author: Hacker-Fire Category:: webapps Google dork: Powered by Discuz Tested on: Windows 7 P0c : ? Php printr ' + ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- + Discuz! 1-1...

British Paypal hacker jailed for stealing millions Identities

British Paypal hacker jailed for stealing millions Identities A UK cybercrook has been jailed for 26 months following his conviction for stealing millions of banking and PayPal identities. According to Report, Southwark Crown Court heard how Edward Pearson, 23, could have made about £834,000 if h...

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech Last week, Hackers posted on the internet the private data of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, including the numbers of his three mobile telephones, after a series of cyber attacks on government web sites. Hacker groups Anonymous and...

Symantec Experiment: Half Of Those Who Find Smartphones Don't Return Them

Good Samaritans are few and far between when it comes to lost cell phones, according to the conclusions of a social experiment conducted by security firm Symantec. Smart phones are unlikely to be returned by those who find them, but very likely to be perused for sensitive data including photos,...

How to Make a Data Breach Disappear

For companies that are in the business of collecting, storing or monetizing user data or processing large numbers of transactions, it’s a matter of when, not if, they will suffer a major compromise or data loss. Most recently the giant wheel of pain stopped on Global Payments, but a weird thing...

SA-CONTRIB-2012-056 - Janrain Engage - Sensitive Data Protection Vulnerability

CVE: CVE-2012-2296 Using Janrain Engage, Drupal sites can authenticate new and existing users with popular social networks, map user profile data from these websites to Drupal fields, and share Drupal content with a user's friends on their social networks. The module permanently retains the...

Global Payments Says 1.5 Million Cards May Be Affected By Breach

UPDATED–Global Payments, the payment-processing company that was the victim of a massive data breach revealed last week, said that the attack appears to have compromised something less than 1.5 million credit card numbers and that the attack looks to have been isolated to the network in North...

50K Cards Compromised using Credit Card Processor

50K Cards Compromised using Credit Card Processor Some 50,000 credit and debit cardholders may have their information exposed following a security breach at Global Payments. The breach occurred sometime between between Jan. 21, 2012 and Feb. 25, 2012. Both Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they...

Visa, MasterCard Warn Of Breach At Card Processor

UPDATE–MasterCard and Visa have confirmed that they are investigating a potentially huge data breach at one of the companies’ payment processors, which the Wall Street Journal has identified as Global Payments Inc. The credit card giants are alerting banks about a breach at a U.S. based card...

Tapes Containing Information On 800K Lost From California Child Support Agency

Backup cartridges containing records on 800,000 individuals belonging to the California Department of Child Support Services DCCS were lost in transit between an IBM facility in Colorado and DCCS’s headquarters in California On March 12, according to a statement from DCCS. PDF The records in...

FBI Cyber Chief Says U.S. Losing War Against Hackers

FBI Cyber Chief Says U.S. Losing War Against Hackers FBI is struggling to combat cyberattacks by hackers. "We're not winning," FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry said. Four top government cybersecurity officials have basically come out to say America is getting her hiney kicked in...

RockYou Agrees to $250K FTC Fine Over Loss Of 32m Passwords

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it had reached a settlement with RockYou over violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA after the Web site allowed hackers to gain access to the personal information of its 32 million members. In a statement published o...

Climategate 2.0? Popular Climate Blog Hacked, E-mails, Passwords Leaked

The website of Skeptical Science, a blog that is critical of climate change skeptics, was hacked over the weekend, and users’ e-mails, passwords and IP addresses were taken, according to a post on the site Sunday. The bulk of the site’s database was taken, uploaded to a Russian website and linked...

Chinese hacker arrested for leaking 6 million logins from CSDN

In the biggest hacking case in China's Internet history, police have arrested a man suspected of leaking personal information about more than six million users. The suspect, surnamed Zeng, was nabbed in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on February 4 after an investigation into the case,...

Verizon: Hacktivists Steal Most Data In 2011

It can be hard to parse the results of the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR, what with the shifts from year to year in the sources of breach data collected. Last year’s report, if you recall, found a stunning drop in incidents of data theft in 2010, even as tracking sites like...

Data Breach at University of Tampa Posted Information of 30K Online

A breach at the University of Tampa may have exposed the sensitive information of thousands of students, faculty and staff members, including their names, identification numbers, social security numbers and birth dates, according to a press release posted to their the University’s Web site over t...

BlueCross BlueShield to Pay $1.5m for HIPAA Violation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee agreed to pony up $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS for a HIPAA violation in 2009, according to a ComputerWorld report. This payment is the settlement of a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack The FBI has revealed that there were $700,000 worth of fraudulent credit card charges after hacktivist group Anonymous stole nearly 200 gigabytes of data, including credit card numbers, from security firm Stratfor. Anonymous...

Adult Site DigitalPlayground.com Hacked: Credit Card Info on 40K Exposed

The adult Web site DigitalPlayground.com was hacked. A group calling itself TheConsortium has claimed credit for the attack, saying it stole credit card information on 40,000 paying customers and even listened in on a company conference call. The compromise occurred on March 4, according to a...