data theft
Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again
Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia and the biggest oil company in the world, has issued a statement announcing that it has restored all its main internal …
Hackers leak information stolen from over 100 sites
Hacker collective Team GhostShell has posted on Saturday on their Twitter account links to a massive leak that supposedly includes over one million of user record sets stolen …
Israeli firms targeted by cyber extortionists
While Iranian systems seem mostly targeted with state-sponsored espionage malware, Israeli businesses and financial institutions mostly fear cyber extortionists. According to …
AMD attackers continue hacking spree, target Phillips
The R00tbeer Security Team hacking collective is hell-bent on making a name for themselves on the Internet. Following the hack of AMD’s official blog and discussion …
AMD’s blog hacked, user data leaked
The official blog of microprocessor manufacturer AMD has been hacked by a group of relative newcomers to the hacking scene that go by the name of r00tBeer. The main page of …
Copyright infringement blackmail scam targets mobile phone users
Swedish mobile users are being targeted with SMS messages accusing them for copyright infringement and urging them to pay a fine between 90 and 195 euros. “You have …
Huge jump in number of fines for data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has revealed a huge increase in the number of penalties handed out for organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. …
Blizzard confirms hack, urges users to change passwords
Blizzard’s CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed in a letter that the company’s internal network has been breached this week. The “unauthorized and illegal …
Gizmodo’s Twitter hijacked following hack of iCloud account
Followers of popular technology weblog Gizmodo have been faced with some very offensive tweets coming from the site’s Twitter account on Friday. Many have accurately …
Sensitive info of 8,000 people compromised in US EPA breach
5,100 current employees of the US Environmental Protection Agency and around 2,700 “other individuals” have been notified of a breach into the agency’s …
Dropbox confirms hack, announces 2-factor authentication
After weeks of investigating how it came about that a sizable number of its European users began receiving spam advertising gambling websites to dedicated (and not) email …
Insider threat in financial services sector
When it comes to preventing insider fraud, financial organizations would do well to more closely monitor experienced, mid-level employees with years on the job, according to a …