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...

PlayStation Network Hacked, Information leaked !

PlayStation Network Hacked, Information leaked ! Update : THN The Hacker News Exclusive Report on Sony 3rd Attack Issue ! While the PlayStation Network is down, a lot of gamers are curious as to what have been the reasons to this outrageous downtime. Today, Media Molecule said that the PSN is onc...

FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...

Fedora Update for kdepimlibs FEDORA-2011-5200

Check for the Version of kdepimlibs OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kdepimlibs FEDORA-2011-5200 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 under...

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...

How Phishers Will Use Epsilon Data Against You

By B.K. DeLong There has been a lot of online venting and hand-wringing in the week since customers of email services provider Epsilon began informing millions of individuals in North America and Europe that their name and e-mail address had been stolen in a massive data breach. In the week since...

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...

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...

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...

Paki UrduHack Security Team Is No More !

Paki UrduHack Security Team Is No More ! The UrduHack Team Said This: I HAVE FINALLY DECIDED TO SHUTDOWN THIS SITE AND PAKI URDUHACK SECURITY TEAM FOREVER. FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD,URDUHACK TEAM IS NO MORE,IT'S BEEN A WONDERFULL JOURNEY. DUE TO PERSONAL LIFE MATTER'S I DECIDED TO SHUTDOWN URDUHAC...

Apple iPhone information leakage

Information about Wi-Fi keys for Personal Hotspot feature is logged to debugging console...

Chandan Roy's Facebook account hacked !

Chandan Roy Sanyal's FB account has been hacked and is being used scandalously. The actor is livid Mikhail of Kaminey, Chandan Roy Sanyal's Facebook status reads: Some tv actress Sneha Wagh keep sending me abusive messages, and SMS. It is very serious matter. Don't know what to do. "But that's no...