6 Million Virgin Mobile users vulnerable to Hackers

Virgin Mobile customers beware: Your phone number is the key to your personal information. According to independent developer Kevin Burke, who warned Virgin Mobile USA customers about a glaring security hole in the phone company's account login protocol said, "If you are one of the six million...

Massachusetts Hospital Agrees to Pay $1.5m After Stolen Laptop HIPAA Violation

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Boston-based hospital, agreed to pay $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HSS earlier this week, settling a HIPAA violation stemming from a 2010 incident. The agreement acknowledges that the hospital failed to comply with...

SSL Digital Certificate Security Issues Put CAs on Notice

It’s been a rough couple of years for the security of fundamental Internet infrastructure technologies such the domain name system DNS, SSL and digital certificates. Hackers are taking aim at these core technologies at the heart of ecommerce and online communication, and are more often than not,...

LinkedIn Data breach costs $1 million

Business networking site LinkedIn has announced it took a hit of up to $1 million due to one of the year's largest reported data breaches. LinkedIn spent between $500,000 and $1 million on forensic work after a large number of passwords were breached, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said on the...

FACT : One in five Microsoft logins controlled by hackers

About 20 percent of Microsoft Account logins are found on lists of compromised credentials in the wake of hack attacks on other service providers, Eric Doerr, Group Program Manager for Microsoft's Account system said. A significant proportion of compromised credentials Microsoft sees from other...

Yahoo Patches Vulnerability that Led to 450,000-Password Breach

Yahoo announced today it’s fixed the security hole that allowed a hacker group this week to post some 450,000 email addresses and passwords belonging to freelance writers. “We have taken swift action and have now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for affected Yahoo!...

Exploit JBoss vulnerability to get webshell method-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

JBoss is a large application platform, ordinary users is difficult to come into contact with. The more difficult to contact something the more I advanced, to borrow a Beijing bus driver Lee su Li of the word“force can only dry out the incompetent, hard to dry out outstanding”, in security is also...

Social Site Formspring Says 420k User Password Hashes Posted Online

Hackers broke into a development server at Formspring, a social Q&A site, and made off with the password hashes for 420,000 users and later posted them online. The company has reset all of the users’ passwords and said it also has changed the way that it handles passwords. Formspring officials sa...

NYT: When Hackers Strike, Small Business Owners Hit Hard

Independent business owners may find themselves deep in debt after hackers wipe out their bank accounts, with banks reluctant to recoup losses caused by online attacks, according to a report in the New York Times. The article, in the Thursday edition of the Times, details several so-called...

Survey Shows 85 Percent of Small Business Owners Convinced a Data Breach Unlikely

If a newly released survey is any indication, publicized data breaches aren’t enough to prompt small businesses to better protect their customer or employee data. A survey released this week by The Hartford found 85 percent of small business owners believe a data breach is unlikely and often lack...

eHarmony, Last.fm Emerge as Latest Victims in Wake of LinkedIn Hack

The online dating site eHarmony announced Wednesday that passwords for some of its members have been leaked, making it the second major social network site to announce the theft of user passwords in the last 24 hours. According to an entry posted on the eHarmony Blog, the company reset the affect...

A CISO's Guide To Application Security – Part 5: Justifying an Investment in AppSec

This post is the last in a 5-part series on Application Security, or “AppSec”. This blog post series has examined the growing threats to software, defined the components of a sound AppSec program, described an evolutionary path to AppSec maturity, and considered a number of tools and technologies...

Sony Engineers Met With PS3 Hacker - Geohot

Sony Engineers Met With PS3 Hacker - Geohot George Hotz aka "Geohot" first made a name for himself in the PS scene when he not only managed to hack a PlayStation 3, but then proceeded to publish a guide that shared with others how to do it as well. In an effort to improve their security measures,...

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...

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information A new form of Android malware controlled via SMS messages has been discovered and the malware can record phone calls, upload the device's GPS location, and reboot the phone, among other things. Researchers at NQ Mobile, working...

EUVD-2012-1563

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9, and 10 Consumer Preview, allows remote attackers to bypass Protected Mode or cause a denial of service memory corruption by leveraging access to a Low integrity process, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2012...

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers. An employee from a software consulting firm contracted by New York State Electric & Gas NYSEG...

Avira-Guard

Avira AntiVir personal edition avguard.exe 7.00.00.52 is prone to a local heap overflow because it fails to perform adequate boundary-checks. Successfully exploiting will allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will resul...

Tech-ex Ksion CMS through the kill vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Author :seraph Through the kill version :v6 all previous versions Vulnerability file :user/UpFileSave. asp Through their own configuration parameters AutoReName=3, can be uploaded file name to save as, by truncation can be obtained directly SHELL Limited, the background to the prohibition of the...

Coca-Cola Norway Hacked by Greek Hacking Scene (GHS)

Coca-Cola Norway Hacked by Greek Hacking Scene GHS An Impressive cyberattack was executed by a ​​Greek hacker against the official website of the multinational company Coca-Cola in Norway with defacement in internal links of the website. In a demonstration of power, the Greek hacker with the...