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Payment card info of 93,000 Web.com customers stolen

The name, address, and credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers of Web.com, a popular US-based provider of Internet services to small businesses, has been …

Insider trading ring hacked into newswire services, raked in $100M based on stolen info

The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced civil fraud charges against 32 defendants for taking part in a scheme to profit from stolen nonpublic information about …

Scammers exploit mobile ads for easy profit

Pop-up ads targeting mobile device users are, arguably, one of the most annoying things in existence. But did you know that they could also make you inadvertently spend small …

Revisiting takedown wins: Are users in the developing world getting left behind?

We have all seen the headlines: another botnet dismantled, and we can all rest easy that the threat that has been plaguing us for all those years is now no longer an issue. …

Top 10 U.S. cities for online fraud

Data reveals Tampa as the top hot spot for online fraud and ThreatMetrix found a correlation between top cities for fraud and those home to hosted data centers. The top 10 …

Darkhotel spying crew boosts attacks with Hacking Team exploit

Kaspersky Lab has discovered that the Darkhotel group, an elite spying crew uncovered by its experts in 2014 and famous for infiltrating Wi-Fi networks in luxury hotels to …

United Airlines hacked by same group that breached Anthem and OPM

United Airlines has been breached, and investigators believe the perpetrators to be the same group that hacked US health insurer Anthem and stole personal and employment …

Most malvertising attacks are hosted on news and entertainment websites

“More than 50 percent of malvertising is unknowingly hosted on news and entertainment websites, according to Bromium. “Bad actors look to extend their reach as far …

Breaches might be inevitable, but penalties are not harsh enough

A panel on the topic of data breaches organized by cyber security and penetration testing company Cognosec has revealed that most industry professionals believe that breaches …

How complex attacks drive the IT security innovation race

There’s a need for organizations to reduce time to detection (TTD) in order to remediate against sophisticated attacks by highly motivated threat actors, according to …

A data security guy’s musings on the OPM data breach train wreck

Despite all the media attention to breaches, there is still way too much apathy when it comes to data-centric security. Given the sensitive data the OPM was tasked with …

Hackers hit UCLA Health, access medical files of 4.5 million patients

UCLA Health, the administrative structure which governs the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) hospitals, has suffered a data breach, and personal and medical …

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