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Staples customers likely the latest victims of credit card breach

International office supply chain store Staples is likely the latest retailer to have suffered a credit card breach. “Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern …

Small healthcare facilities unprepared for a data breach

While healthcare breaches are on the rise, most small facilities feel that their systems adequately limit the risk of a data breach despite one in three facilities spending …

Hackers make companies’ phones call premium-rate numbers, cost them billions

Attackers hacking into companies’ phone network, using it to place mass phone calls to premium-rate telephone numbers is not a new occurrence – they have been …

Beware of Ebola-themed phishing, malware campaigns and hoaxes

US-CERT released an advisory warning users about email scams and cyber campaigns using the Ebola virus disease as a theme. “Phishing emails may contain links that direct …

Kmart confirms month-old data breach, payment card data stolen

First via a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and then via a press release, Sears Holding Corporation has confirmed a month-old breach that affected POS …

Companies still rely on outdated methods to keep secure

Many companies are struggling to keep their networks secure against rapidly evolving cyber threats. Despite increasingly sophisticated attacks and rising complexity in the …

The number of JPMorgan hackers’ targets rises

The distressing news that the JPMorgan Chase breach resulted in the compromise of data of some 76 million households and 7 million small businesses may be soon followed by …

Integrating IT security at the board level

2014 has seen an upsurge in public awareness of cybercrime, with a flurry of high-profile security breaches hitting the headlines. The sensationalised coverage of the …

Infected ATMs give away millions of dollars without credit cards

Kaspersky Lab performed a forensic investigation into cybercriminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of this investigation, researchers …

Every fifth Android user faces cyber attacks

A total of 1,000,000 Android device users around the world encountered dangerous software between August 2013 and July 2014, according to the results of a survey carried out …

AT&T suffers another insider breach

US telecom AT&T has lately been having problems with malicious insiders, and the latest incident has resulted in the compromise of account and personal information of a …

How consumers foot the bill for data breaches

Data breaches are almost always expensive and somebody always ends up paying those expenses somewhere down the line. Either because they were affected directly and have no one …

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