Anonabees 'SpexSecurity' Appear, Leak Data On Thousands, Disappear

A new Anonymous-styled hacktivist group, SpexSecurity, has surfaced and then vanished, but not before allegedly siphoning the personal information of over 100,000 residents of a Tennessee town, including individuals’ e-mail passwords, social security numbers and birth dates. Details of the hack...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

April 2012 – Atari/Cryptic Studios

Atari, a pioneer in the early goings of the video gaming world, has struggled to maintain relevancy. A recent breach at one of the company’s former MMORPG developers, Cryptic Studios, could hamper their efforts further. While the breach actually occurred in December 2010, it wasn’t until April...

June 2011 – Epic Games & Codemasters Hacks

Happening almost simultaneously with the hacks at Nintendo, Bethesda, and other firms, the Epic Games hack spilled email addresses and encrypted passwords online and prompted the company to reset all of its users’ passwords. Codemasters had it bad too: their breach exposed the personal informatio...

Analysis: Popular Android Apps Access More Information than Needed

A South Korean security provider says it’s uncovered popular Android apps that want more information than is required, putting users at risk. AhnLab, Inc., headquartered in Seoul, analyzed 178 of the best-rated Android applications using its cloud-based app security analysis tool, ranking each ap...

Study Finds One in 10 Hand-Me-Down Hard Drives Still Hold Personal Data

A U.K. organization today released independent study results that show one in 10 secondhand hard drives sold online may contain “residential personal information,” such as bank statements, passports and medical details. In an effort to underscore the need to throughly scrub machines, mobile phone...

UK Govt. Investigating London Marathon Data Breach That Spilled Info On 38,000

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office ICO said it is looking into a possible data breach of the Website used by organizers of the London Marathon – major, international sporting event that attracted more than 37,000 runners for the 37th running on April 22nd. According to a BBC report, the hom...

Employee Sends Medicaid Info of 228K To His Yahoo! Account

A South Carolina man was arrested yesterday on charges stemming from a data breach that may have leaked personal information on more than 200,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in the state, including their names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and Medicare ID numbers according to a report in the...

admin/createMissingPersonalInfo.jsp lacks an XSRF token to trigger "build Personal Information objects"

admin/createMissingPersonalInfo.jsp doesn't require a csrf token to trigger "build Personal Information objects". When fixing this issue, please ensure that the JSP is converted to an action or deleted - we don't want to have to maintain our XSRF infrastructure in JSPs...

admin/createMissingPersonalInfo.jsp lacks an XSRF token to trigger "build Personal Information objects"

admin/createMissingPersonalInfo.jsp doesn't require a csrf token to trigger "build Personal Information objects". When fixing this issue, please ensure that the JSP is converted to an action or deleted - we don't want to have to maintain our XSRF infrastructure in JSPs...

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked !

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked ! Is your Internet TV vulnerable to hackers? Internet TVs could be the newest avenue for cybercriminals to infiltrate your home or business. Last year, Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered...

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach Utah health officials said that hackers who broke into state computers last weekend stole far more medical records than originally thought, and the data likely includes Social Security numbers of children who have received public assistance. The...

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech Last week, Hackers posted on the internet the private data of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, including the numbers of his three mobile telephones, after a series of cyber attacks on government web sites. Hacker groups Anonymous and...

New Ice IX Variant Steals Information From Facebook Users

A new iteration of the Ice IX malware has been spotted attacking Facebook users, according to researchers at Trusteer, who claim that now the malware is trying to swindle unsuspecting users out of sensitive information like credit card numbers and addresses. After launching a web injection, the...

Fedora Update for kdepim FEDORA-2011-13417

Check for the Version of kdepim OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kdepim FEDORA-2011-13417 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Your Xbox 360 credit card details Vulnerable to Hack

Your Xbox 360 credit card details Vulnerable to Hack It has been discovered by researchers at Philadelphia's Drexel University, that credit card data on older Xbox 360 systems that have been traded in or sold on. Hackers can now retrieve personal information from refurbished Xbox consoles,...

Fedora Update for kdepimlibs FEDORA-2011-13417

Check for the Version of kdepimlibs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kdepimlibs FEDORA-2011-13417 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

Fake Facebook Profile For NATO Senior Commander Used To Phish Senior Brass

A fake Facebook profile for NATO Senior Commander James Stavridis, a US Navy Admiral, was used to trick senior officers in both the U.S. and British military to becoming friends. The spear phishing attack is of unknown origin and is believed to have divulged a wide range of personal information o...

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer ...

Groupon Piggyback Site Offers $500 Voucher, Charges Users for Allegedly 'Free' Trial Offers

A domain registered two days ago as groupon500.com, which claims to offer a $500 voucher toward Groupon or its primary competitor, LivingSocial, is actually registering users for ‘free’ trial offers that aren’t free at all. The best part, however, is that everything about this scam is perfectly...