Weak Bank Password Policies Leave 350 Million Vulnerable, Say Researchers

Should passwords that protect your financial data be less secure than the ones used to lock up selfies, cat videos and tweets swapped on social networks? In a study that looked at the password strength required to access website account for Wells Fargo, Capital One and 15 other banks, researchers...

IRS Releases Seventh Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the seventh in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. This tip describes methods users can follow to...

IRS Releases Sixth Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the sixth in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. This tip describes the types of fraud alerts...

IRS Releases Fourth Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the fourth in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. This tip focuses on protecting your passwords. Recommendations include creating longer and more complex passwords, not using the same...

IRS Releases First in a Series of Tax Security Tips

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the first in a series of tips intended to increase public awareness of how to protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. The first tip focuses on seve...

Magento Patched Remote Execution Hole in eCommerce Platform

A nasty remote code execution vulnerability was recently patched in eBay’s eCommerce platform Magento. The hole, disclosed Monday, could put upwards to 200,000 company’s web stores, and their customers’ information at risk of being compromised. If exploited, researchers claim the vulnerability...

Slack Discloses Breach of its User Profile Database

Enterprise and small business collaboration provider Slack today disclosed that a database storing user profile information has been compromised. The company said in a notice posted on its site that the unauthorized access has been blocked, and that it has implemented two-factor authentication...

Sony Pictures Scarier Hack — Hackers Leak Scripts, Celebrity Phone Numbers and Aliases

The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has reached a more scarier phase following another huge leak of sensitive, confidential documents revealing celebrity contact details and upcoming film scripts. The so-called Guardians of Peace GoP group taking responsibility for the...

Tinba Banker Trojan Source Code Posted

The source code for Tinba, known as the smallest banker Trojan in circulation, has been posted on an underground forum. Researchers say that the files turned out to be the source code for version one of Tinba, which was identified in 2012, and is the original, privately sold version of the...

Muhammad A. Muquit wwwcount 2.3 Count.cgi Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/128/info Wwwcount count.cgi is a very popular CGI program used to track website usage. In particular, it enumerates the number of hits on given webpages and increments them on a 'counter'. In October of 1997 two remotely...

First Paid Fake Android Antivirus App Downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play Store

Well, we all are very conscious, when it comes to the security of our personal information, security of our financial data and security of everything related to us. In the world of Smart devices where our Smartphones knows more than we know ourselves. To keep our device protected from harmful...

Ukrainian Hacker falsely claimed theft of 800 million Credit Card

800 Million US based Credit and Debit cards compromised! Really it’s a big number and till now it has not been sized by the cyber security officials but a hacker group claims that they had stolen data on hundreds of millions of U.S. card accounts. Last week, the hacker group called itself Anonymo...

Bitcoin Makes Cybercrime Arrests Harder than Ever

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The good news is that cooperation between the various law enforcement agencies in different countries all over the world is at an all time high; the bad news is that cybercriminals have embraced a potent combination of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin and equally anonymous...

Google: Gmail Users Should Have No Expectation of Privacy

Edward Snowden has done enough to highlight how vulnerable electronic communications are to surveillance and Gmail users should not expect privacy from Google. Lavabit is no more. Silent Circle has shuttered its secure email service. A California watchdog group says that Gmail users now have a...

Bloomberg Leaks Private Messages from Data-Mining Project

A news report says the beleaguered Bloomberg financial data and news service accidentally posted online more than 10,000 private messages between traders and clients at some of the world’s largest banks. The breaches, said to be part of a former employee’s data mining project, took place in 2009...

Google For First Time Reports FBI Non-Warrant Requests for User Data

Google today revealed – if in vague terms – it last year received less than 1,000 “national Security letters” from federal authorities seeking financial and communications data on up to almost 2,000 individuals. The disclosure of such government requests marks a first for a major Internet service...

New Version of Shylock Malware Spreading Through Skype

There is a new version of the Shylock malware that is now capable of spreading through Skype. The new version is spreading mainly in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. and is playing off the fact that Microsoft is about to kill its Messenger application in favor of Skype. The new version of Shylock ha...

UAMS Alerts Patients to Data Breach Linked to Fired Resident

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is letting some 1,500 patients know their information was kept without permission by a resident physician after she was terminated. The health care facility plans to mail impacted patients who had surgery or were seen by a neurosurgeon from January ...

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...

Dorifel Malware Encrypts Files, Steals Financial Data, May Be Related to Zeus or Citadel

While much of the world was focused yesterday on the Gauss malware saga, there was another interesting infection happening, mainly in the Netherlands, that researchers think may be related to the Zeus and Citadel attacks, though the motivation behind the attack is somewhat of a mystery. The new...