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Hacked PlayStation Network to be fully restored by end of May !
Hacked PlayStation Network to be fully restored by end of May ! Sony said Tuesday it aimed to fully restore its PlayStation Network, shut down after a massive security breach affecting more than 100 million online accounts, by the end of May. Sony also confirmed that personal data from 24.6 milli...
Forget Epsilon, Fear the Angry Bird
No doubt you read about the huge email security breach Epsilon announced earlier this month. You may have received letters from companies that use Epsilon services about the possible loss of your email information. A lot of people are justifiably concerned that spear phishing and other nefarious...
Stolen data may be sold on cyber black market !
Hackers behind what computer security experts believe could be the biggest data theft in US history may be planning to sell the information to cyber criminals for targeted scams. And while the tens of millions of names and email addresses swiped from online marketing firm Epsilon do not appear to...
Pandora Mobile App Transmits Gobs Of Personal Data
A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of a Grand Jury investigation into loose data privacy practices in the mobile application market confirms that the application silently sends reams of sensitive data to advertisers. The analysis was...
Lush takes down two regional sites following another hack !
Last month's compromise of the UK website of the natural ingredients cosmetic firm Lush and the theft of its customers' credit card details must have hurt the company but unfortunately, its troubles are not over yet. "We are sorry to have to announce that the Lush Australian and New Zealand...
Facebook Flops On The Sale Of The User's Address, Telephone Numbers !!
Facebook made a rapid retreat Monday January 17 announcing that it would "temporarily" disable the functionality of a new brand that allows applications to third harvest phone numbers of users and home addresses. The function began with a blog Facebook quiet afternoon Friday, January 14. He said...
Android trojan collects personal data !
In China, a trojan has popped up that uses escalated rights to read out information such as the address book in Android cell phones, and sends the information via the internet to remote servers. As the Lookout blog reports, the contaminant called Geinimi is the most refined method of collecting...
UK: Google Street View Data Snarfing Broke the Law
Search giant Google violated the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act by gobbling up personal data, in addition to images and GPS data, with its roving Street View autos. According to a report by the BBC, the UK’s Information Commissioner ruled there was a “significant breach” of the country’s da...
Ecshop2. 7. 2 persistent XSS to obtain administrator account-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
Vulnerability details Brief description: Personal data changes, the Javascript code for the filter are not stringent enough, theXSSthe code directly into the database Detailed description: ! Password protection question this one, not using the regular filter, the other has the regular filter. We...
Данные из взломанного процессинга Хронопэй
Ровно неделя прошла с момента опубликования заявления группы хакеров о взломе платежной системы «Chronopay», краже массива кредитных карт http://chronoplay.livejournal.com/586.html и личных данных миллионов россиян. Поскольку официальные лица компании продолжают делать вид, что ничего не произошл...
Google in Apology Mode After WiFi Data Grab
Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the company “screwed up” when it equipped its world-roving Street View cars with software code that spent three years capturing personal data from open Wi-Fi networks. “Let me just say: We screwed up,” Brin told a room full of reporters this afternoon at the...
Facebook and the Never-Ending Privacy Discussion
As each day goes by, I see more and more people complaining when it comes to Facebook and privacy: I’d like to make my friend list private. Cannot. I’d like to have my profile visible only to my friends, not my boss. Cannot. I’d like to support an anti-abortion group without my mother or the worl...
Affinity Health Warns 409K Customers of Breach
Affinity Health Plan, a New York managed care service, is notifying more than 400,000 current and former customers employees that their personal data might have been leaked through the loss of an unerased digital copier hard drive. Read the full article. Dark Reading...
SpyPhone iPhone App Can Harvest Personal Data
A Swiss iPhone developer has released a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from iPhones, including geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email account information, all using just the public API. The application, called SpyPhone, uses the...
MassMutual Employee DB Hacked
MassMutual officials this week confirmed that one of its employee databases was accessed by an unauthorized person or persons, exposing an unknown number of employees’ personal data for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time. The Springfield, Mass.-based insurer said the compromised database was...
Security Pros React to Potential Federal Data Law
A federal cybersecurity law edged closer to reality late last week when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to protect the personal data of Americans. The bill is a bipartisan effort sponsored by Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and co-sponsored by former Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, th...
Two Data Breach Notification Bills Advance in Senate
Two separate bills that would require organizations to notify consumers when their personal information has been compromised have made their way out of committee in the Senate, a critical step toward the creation of a national data-breach notification bill. A variety of technology vendors, consum...
Congress Calls for Internal Security Review
After a former Congressional staffer exposed some sensitive data on a file-sharing network recently, some lawmakers are calling for the Congress to start an internal review of its own data security policies immediately. The situation, which is linked to an ethics investigation in the House of...
