How to Freeze Credit Report To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft

If your Social Security number gets hacked in any data breaches, including recently hacked T-Mobile, then there's a way to prevent hackers from misusing your identity i.e. identity theft. The solution here is that you can institute a security freeze at each of the three credit bureaus, Equifax,...

Court Rules FTC Has Authority to Punish Wyndham Over Breaches

In the latest installment of a long and winding court case related to multiple data beaches at Wyndham Worldwide several years ago, an appellate court has upheld the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to punish the hotel chain for lax security practices that allegedly led to the breaches...

Best Practices to Protect You, Your Network, and Your Information

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC and its partners responded to a series of data breaches in the public and private sector over the last year, helping organizations through incident response actions, conducting damage assessments, and implementing restoration...

17-Year-Old Lizard Squad Member Found Guilty Of 50,700 Hacking Charges

An alleged member of Lizard Squad, who claimed responsibility for knocking Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live offline late last year has been convicted of 50,700 counts of cyber crime. The infamous computer hacker gang Lizard Squad launched massive Distributed Denial-of-Service...

Stolen U.S. Government Credentials Found Online

Credentials stolen in breaches and sundry hacks belonging to close to 100 unique U.S. government domains are scattered among a number of paste sites and are searchable in other locations online. Analysts at Recorded Future said on Wednesday that through open source intelligence gathering and...

Global 9 5% of the SAP Enterprise Management System there is a security vulnerability that could lead to serious data leakage-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to Onapsis research report, the world more than 2 5 million for corporate due to the SAP system in the presence of a series of security vulnerabilities affected, may lead to serious corporate data breaches. SAP is the world's most popular enterprise application software companies and...

Vulnerabilities of the Gentoo Linux operating system, which allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

Multiple vulnerabilities in the puppet package up to version 2.7.13 of the Gentoo Linux operating system. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by a...

Vulnerabilities in the OpenSUSE operating system that allow malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the libtdb1-debuginfo-32bit package of the OpenSUSE operating system can lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can be carried out remotely...

Vulnerabilities in the SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system that allow attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the kdeflt package of the SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system can lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can be carried out remotely...

Threat Intelligence Sharing Still Seen as a Challenge

SAN FRANCISCO–The discussion about information sharing has been going on in the security community since before there was a security community, but the tone and shape of the conversation have changed recently thanks to an executive order from the Obama administration and the relentless drumbeat o...

Why You Should Enroll In Cyber Security Awareness Training

When it comes to cyber security, even big organizations lack the basic knowledge of how to protect company’s data from the outside. Everyday businesses are facing the threat of phishing, ransomware, data breaches and malware attacks that not only results in millions of dollars losses, but also...

Researcher Tries to Get Ahead of CFAA Changes, Dumps 10M Sanitized Passwords

The Obama administration’s proposed changes to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA have security researchers on edge. The amendments, spurred on by 2014’s seemingly never-ending stream of data breaches, contain vagaries in their language that threaten legitimate research done in the name of improvi...

Researcher Publishes 10 Million Usernames and Passwords from Data Breaches

A security researcher has publicly released a set of 10 Million usernames and passwords, which he collected from multiple data breaches over the last decade for the purpose of his research. These 10 million usernames and passwords are collective of leaked database dumps those were already availab...

Intuit Suspends Turbo Tax, Investigating Fraudulent Returns

UPDATE: This story has been updated with commentary from Intuit. Intuit last Thursday suspended its Turbo Tax e-filing service after a dramatic increase in suspicious filings and criminal attempts to leverage stolen identities in order to claim tax refunds. Intuit has since restored Turbo Tax and...

Proposed CFAA Amendments Bad News For Security Researchers

Legitimate security researchers, from bug hunters to pen-testers, are buckled in for a bumpy ride as vague language in President Obama’s proposed amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA is expected to be debated and sorted out as it makes its way through the legislature. The amendment...

Parking Services Confirm Payment Card Breaches

Two services that allow users to reserve over the Internet offsite parking spots at airports confirmed week that they recently suffered data breaches and customer data may be at risk. Park ‘N Fly, headquartered in Atlanta, and OneStopParking, which is based in Florence, Ky, allow travelers to...

Prices Rising at Illegal Underground Hacking Markets

Underground hacker markets are peddling complete kits to create new identities, elevating in-person fraud scams a tier closer to credit card theft and fraud. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks released an update to 2013 research on black hat markets, noticing a number of noteworthy trends beyond the...

'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday' — 4 Scams To Watch Out For While Shopping

Holiday Shopping season is really an excited time for both shoppers and retailers, but unfortunately it's a good time for cyber criminals and scammers as well. With Black Friday 28th November 2014 and Cyber Monday 1st December 2014 coming up, you need to be more careful while shopping. These are...

Michael Chertoff Risk Management ACSC Keynote

BOSTON – Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff gave enterprises a pep talk Wednesday during his keynote address at the Advanced Cyber Security Center’s annual conference. In a climate where massive financial services organizations such as JP Morgan Chase have been breached, the Whit...

American Express Brings Tokenization to Payment Cards

American Express has taken steps toward lifting the burden from retailers having to store payment-card data with the announcement of its American Express Token Service. The service will replace traditional 16-digit credit card numbers with a digital token. Consumers carrying a card supporting the...