Lancaster 25,000 students and 2,500-plus employees personal info hacked !

Lancaster 25,000 students and 2,500-plus employees personal info hacked ! Lancaster County Schools officials say computer hackers have gotten personal information on the system's 25,000 students and 2,500-plus employees. In a note posted on the school system's website and sent to students and...

Two Hyundai Capital Services hackers arrested !

Two Hyundai Capital Services hackers arrested ! Two men who are believed to have hacked into the computer system of Hyundai Capital Services have been arrested. The pair, identified only by their surnames Heo and Yu are believed to be part of a group of five individuals who carried out the hack...

Senators Propose Bill Of Rights To Protect Personal Information Online

Senators John Kerry D-Mass. and John McCain R-Ariz. don’t agree on much in the policy arena, except when it comes to protecting online privacy. The incongruous couple are political bedfellows on a piece of legislation introduced yesterday called The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011...

Texas Comptroller Exposes Personal Data on Millions

The Texas Comptroller’s Office is issuing letters Wednesday to some 3.5 million citizens after personally identifiable data was left exposed to the public on a state server for more than a year, according to a published statement. The exposed data included the names, addresses and Social Security...

Mandriva Update for firefox MDVSA-2011:068 (firefox)

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for firefox MDVSA-2011:068 firefox Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : firefox (MDVSA-2011:068)

Several invalid HTTPS certificates were placed on the certificate blacklist to prevent their misuse. Users on a compromised network could be directed to sites using the fraudulent certificates and mistake them for the legitimate sites. This could deceive them into revealing personal information...

Sophisticated Attack Yields Data On IEEE Members

IEEE, the world’s leading society for technical professionals, has warned some 800 members that their credit card and personal information may have been stolen. The FBI has been notified of the breach. The group disclosed the November, 2010 breach in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General...

Lost BP Laptop Contains Financial Information on Thousands of Gulf Oil Spill Victims

Almost a year has passed since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and spewed three months of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But less than six months after the beleaguered oil giant managed to cap that well, it is contending with a new spill of a different sort: the loss of personal information ...

Restaurant Chain is First Fined Under Massachusetts Data Breach Law

UPDATE: A Massachusetts restaurant chain was the first company fined under the state’s toughest in the nation data breach law and will have to pay $110,000 in penalties, according to a statement by the Massachusetts Attorney General. The Briar Group LLC entered into a settlement with Massachsuett...

Tumblr security flaw, Clarification by Tumblr official staff !

Tumblr security flaw, Clarification by Tumblr official staff ! On our yesterday post about Tumblr security flaw : server IPS, API keys, passwords, etc were leaked, Finally Tumblr official staff gives a statement to all their users as below : A human error caused some sensitive server configuratio...

3G technology will increase cyber crime !

Cyber Crime has now reached to hacking information from the mobile phones. The 3G technology recently launched by the mobile service providers is in much rage nowadays. The 3G technology allows a user to access internet on a good quality network on the cellphone. As such hackers will now target t...

Spanish Police Arrest Alleged Nintendo Hacker !

Spanish police say they've arrested a hacker who threatened to go public with personal information he found in a Nintendo database on about 4,000 of the company's users. Nintendo's Spanish division, Nintendo Ibérica, was approached by the hacker, who was seeking to blackmail the company, Spain's...

Confusion, Recriminations Surround PlentyofFish Breach

Controversy has erupted around the free online dating site, PlentyofFish.com, after the Web site was found to contain a serious security vulnerability that could have potentially exposed the personal information of some 30 million users. In another chapter of the annals of “No Good Deed Goes...

Government Sites, Military And Educational For Sale By Hackers !!

A hacker has a number of sites belonging to government agencies, military and educational for sale on internet forums. The discovery was made by Noa Bar-Yosef, a senior security strategist at security vendor Imperva. Bar-Yosef, wrote about it in the company's blog last Friday, noting that prices...

Thousands Of Bank Details At Risk As Hackers Hit Lozano UK Site !

Hackers can obtain the bank details of thousands of customers in a lush, a cosmetics company acknowledged yesterday. The company invites all our customers who have purchased products online during the month of October to check fraud. To date, 43 customers had their cards are used tricks. Thieves...

University of Sydney failed to secure vulnerable web data !!

The detailed records of thousands of University of Sydney students past and present are being stored online where they can be easily downloaded and read via an internet connection. It is understood the university was told about this security threat in February 2007, but did not move to secure the...

Lolz ! I've won three million Euros from Bill Gates !

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share. I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation! I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fight...

Infected PC Compromises Pentagon Credit Union

The credit union used by members of the U.S. armed forces and their families has admitted that a laptop infected with malware was used to access a database containing the personal and financial information of customers. The Pentagon Federal Credit Union PenFed issued a statement to the New...

Fake antivirus pop-ups hacking into computers !

MISSOULA - Univision Computers, a company based in Missoula, is warning people about a fake antivirus alert pop-ups that could not only damage your computer, but could pull personal information from it. The FBI says it's called "scareware" because criminals try to frighten you into buying fake...

Millions of Honda/Acura owners affected by hacked Honda database !

The Japanese motor company, Honda, today issued an alert to U.S. customers concerning a security breach resulting from a hacked database. The database that was managed by a third-party marketing group contained confidential information, including names of car owners, personal e-mail addresses, an...