Hacker Leaks Info of 30,000 FBI and DHS Employees

An unknown hacker who promised to release the personal information on government employees has dump online a list of nearly 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI agents and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security DHS officers. Though the authenticity of the information has not been verified, a...

China — OPM Hack was not State-Sponsored; Blames Chinese Criminal Gangs

In the most surprising manner, the Chinese government said it arrested criminal hackers behind the massive cyber attack on US Office of Personnel Management OPM earlier this year, dismissing its involvement. Three months back, we reported that China arrested a handful of hackers within its border...

Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked

If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service. T-Mobile’s credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15...

5.6 Million Federal Employees' Fingerprints Stolen in OPM Hack

The OPM Data Breach Office of Personnel Management is getting even worse than we thought. We already know more than 21 Million current and former federal employees had their personal and highly sensitive private information hijacked in a massive data breach that affected Defense Department's OPM...

5.6 Million Fingerprints Stolen In OPM Hack

It turns out roughly 5.6 million federal employees may have had their fingerprints stolen as part of this year’s mammoth Office of Personnel Management breach – a figure five times what the agency initially announced in June. OPM press secretary Sam Schumach broke the bad news Wednesday morning,...

Federal CISOs Propose New Efforts to Shore Up Govt. Cybersecurity

Nearly six months removed from the OPM hack and with many government departments still reeling when it comes to security, several federal chief information security officers volunteered a handful of new ideas at last week’s Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C to combat future hacks...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part II

In Part I of this two-part series from The Hacker News, the First Four list of Top Brutal Cyber Attacks shows that whoever you are, Security can never be perfect. As attackers employ innovative hacking techniques and zero-day exploits, the demand for increased threat protection grows. In this...

OPM Hack Victims Still Haven't Been Notified

Millions of government workers whose information was implicated in this year’s expansive Office of Personnel Management hack still haven’t been notified, the agency revealed this week. The agency announced Tuesday that it would contact 21.5 million federal employees and contractors “later this...

FBI’s Cyber Task Force Identifies Stealthy FF-RATs used in Cyber Attack

In both April and June this year, a series of cyber attacks was conducted against the United States Office of Personnel Management OPM. These attacks resulted in 21 million current and former Federal government employees’ information being stolen. After months of investigation, the FBI’s Cyber Ta...

Census Bureau Says Breach Didn't Compromise Sensitive Data

Officials at the United States Census Bureau say that the attackers who compromised one of the bureau’s databases last week did not get access to any confidential information, but only data such as names and phone numbers of organizations that submit information to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse...

New Bill Would Grant Lifetime Credit Monitoring to OPM Victims

A group of lawmakers are proposing victims of last month’s expansive Office of Personnel Management hack receive lifetime fraud protection and credit monitoring. Democratic lawmakers on Monday presented the Reducing the Effects of the Cyberattack on OPM Victims Emergency Response, or RECOVER Act...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Hacking Team Hack and the OPM Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Hacking Team hack and the continued fallout from the OPM breach. Download: digitalunderground212.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

OPM Hack Expands to Include Data of 21.5M People

UPDATE–The ever-expanding data breach at the Office of Personnel Management has now spread to include the Social Security numbers and other personal data of a total of 21.5 million people, and the toll also now includes the agency’s director, Katherine Archuleta, who resigned Friday morning...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the Latest Apple Patches, Mudge and the Cyber UL, and the OPM Hack

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the OS X and iOS patches, the potential for the new cyber UL project run by Mudge, and the lawsuit against OPM after its data breach. Download: digitalunderground210.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Class-Action Suit Alleges OPM Officials Failed to Protect Employees' Data

A class-action lawsuit filed by a government employees’ union against the Office of Personnel Management as a result of the massive data breach at OPM that affects more than 18 million people alleges that not only did the agency know about vulnerabilities in its network long before the attack, bu...

In Wake of New Vulnerability OPM Temporarily Halts Background Checks

The Office of Personnel Management — already deep in the throes of a breach that may implicate upwards to 18 million government employees — announced yesterday that it is temporarily suspending the system it uses to conduct government background checks. According to the OPM, the shuttering of the...

OPM Identity-Protection Phishing Campaigns

US-CERT is aware of suspicious domain names that may be used in phishing campaigns masquerading as official communication from the Office of Personnel Management OPM or the identity protection firm CSID. Https://opm.csid.com is the legitimate domain used by CSID, which is responsible for identity...

OPM Temporarily Shuts Down Background Check App to Fix Security Hole

The web gateway used to render materials for Federal Background Investigations for employees and contractors has been shut down for several weeks after a vulnerability was detected, the Office of Personnel Management announced. The agency announced the shut down citing the discovery of a...

On the Cisco Default SSH Keys, OPM Hack, the Adobe Zero Day, and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the Cisco default SSH keys, more details of the OPM data breach, the Adobe 0-day and why we never hear about bad APT groups, only the really good ones. Download: digitalunderground208.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the OPM Hack Hearing and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the brutal House Oversight Committee hearing on the OPM breach, the Navy soliciting zero days, the LastPass breach, and the Cardinals-Astros hacking story. Download: digitalunderground208.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...