Red Button Attack Could Compromise Smart TVs

A vulnerability in an emerging interactive television standard could expose smart TVs to untraceable drive-by hacking attacks that could steal personal information and wreak havoc on televisions and anything connected to them. The feature, HbbTV, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television was introduc...

Monsanto Suffers Data Breach at Precision Planting Unit

Monsanto, the massive international agricultural conglomerate, has disclosed a data breach that involved the personal information of customers and employees of its Precision Planting subsidiary. The breach included names, addresses, possibly Social Security numbers and some financial account...

San Diego State Warns of Possible Data Breach

San Diego State University has notified some of its current and former enrollees that some of their personal information may have been accessed by unauthorized users, after a database containing the information was found to be accessible by anyone on the affected department’s wired network. The...

FTC Asks Data Brokers, Congress for Transparency, Regulation

The Federal Trade Commission called on data brokers to be more transparent and give users more control over their personal information in a comprehensive report issued yesterday. The 100-plus page document, “Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Acccountability,” .PDF criticizes the industry...

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France Telecom Orange Hacked Again, Personal Details of 1.3 Million Customers Stolen

French leading telecommunications company 'Orange' hit by second major data breach of its kind in a matter of months. Company announced that hackers have stolen personal data of 1.3 million customers of its online portal. ORANGE HACKED SECOND TIME IN THREE MONTHS Hackers have stolen a “limited...

Apple Fixes Critical Hole in Developer Center, Radar

Apple patched a potentially serious hole in its Developer Center earlier this week that could have given anyone unfettered access to the personal contact information of company developers, retail employees and even executives. Ironically enough, the bug existed in Apple’s internal bug reporting a...

AOL Breached, Investigating Spam from Spoofed Accounts

AOL reported today that it has been breached and urges users of its web-based email and other online services to change their passwords. AOL’s investigation of a breach of its internal network and systems is under way with the help of federal authorities and a forensics firm, the company said. La...

Iowa State Hacked--To Mine Bitcoins

It’s an odd week these days when there isn’t a data breach at some university or college. These institutions are prime targets for attackers for several reasons, not the least of which are their open network environments and databases bulging with personal information. But now attackers are looki...

ASUS RT Series Routers FTP Service - Default anonymous access

Five ASUS RT series routers suffer from a vendor vulnerability that default FTP service to anonymous access, full read/write permissions. The service, which is activated from the administrative console does not give proper instructions nor indications that the end user needs to manually add a use...

Vulnerable Texas Transportation Site 'TxTag' leaves 1.2 Million Credit Cards at Risk

Do you know, Why another major company is getting hacked every week? Because of poor policies, Laziness to Incident Response and lack in will-power to put efforts on applying important patches. Some companies are not taking their security more seriously, and best suitable example for this is TxTa...

University Data Breaches Pose Threat to Students, Academic Openness

North Dakota State University administrators confirmed last week that hackers never accessed the personal information of more than 200,000 students, faculty and staff housed on the server they successfully infiltrated. This attack perfectly suits the modern hackers MO. They attack open systems...

Researchers explained How ANGRY BIRDS Sharing Your Personal Data

We are already aware about the fact that most probably every mobile app is collecting our data in one or the other form. Thanks to Edward Snowden, who provided the secret documents that revealed that the world's most popular Smartphone applications, including gaming apps such as Angry Birds, are...

US Tax Season Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

In the past, US-CERT has received reports of an increased number of phishing scams and malware campaigns that seek to take advantage of the United States tax season. The Internal Revenue Service has issued an advisory on its website warning consumers about potential scams. Tax season phishing...

Crowd-Funding site Kickstarter Hacked! It's time to change your Password

If you have an account at the popular crowd funding site Kickstarter, it's time to change your account's password. Kickstarter's CEO Yancey Strickler says that the company has been hacked by an unknown hacker earlier this week. Kickstarter said in a blog post that no credit card information was...

Angry Birds and other Mobile Gaming apps leaking your private information to NSA

Are you fond of playing games on your Smartphone like Angry Birds or Subway Surfer?? You should now stop wasting your time, because NSA is utilizing your gaming energy in the best possible way. According to the latest documents leaked by former U.S. Government contractor Edward Snowden, Some of t...

Target Attackers Took 11 GB of Data, Researchers Say

The attackers who infiltrated Target’s network several weeks ago and made off with 40 million credit and debit card numbers used a multi-stage attack, funneling their stolen data through an FTP server and then a VPS server in Russia. It took more than two weeks, but the attackers eventually...

Target Data Breach Total Could Reach 110 Million

UPDATE: The latest on Target’s Black Friday data breach plunged the incident to uglier depths. The giant Minneapolis-based retailer today revealed new details culled from a forensic investigation that the attackers not only stole credit and debit card information, but also names, mailing addresse...

Target Corp. Suffers Black Friday Data Breach

UPDATE – TJX and Heartland Payment Systems may soon have company atop the list of the worst retail data breaches in U.S. history after reports surfaced that Target Corp. was breached around Black Friday and millions of credit and debit cards were stolen. Target confirmed the breach this morning a...

Flashlight App Settles with FTC

The makers of a popular Android flashlight application have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that they covertly tracked the locations of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” users and sold that information to advertising firms. The FTC’s charges stem primarily from the fact...