data theft

Hackers have targeted five international oil companies and have extracted sensitive corporate information about oil- and gas-field operations, project financing and bidding, …

Cybersecurity risks pose some of the most serious economic and national security challenges of the 21st century. A new book, Data Breach and Encryption Handbook, published by …

Names and e-mail addresses of some 400,000 job seekers have been harvested by hackers who have breached the RecruitIreland.com site and its systems. The site has been taken …

Redspin released an analysis of all protected health information breaches publicly recorded between August 2009 and the end of 2010, as per the interim final breach …

Hackers continue to breach systems of vital importance to the US, and the latest one to be compromised is the one belonging to the company that operates the Nasdaq Stock …

Almost a year ago, the Waledac botnet was crippled by a legal action initiated by Microsoft which resulted in the takedown of 273 Internet domains that were being used as …

A proof-of-concept attack page that exploits a Facebook vulnerability to access a user’s private data has been devised by two students who shared the information with …

We often blame users for failing to deny permissions required by malicious applications on Facebook or various mobile platforms, but the truth is that the list of permissions …

The Web site of Lush, the natural ingredients cosmetic firm, has reportedly been cracked and subverted by attackers, with reports that customers’ bank details have …

Surges in SEO poisoning will yield record-breaking malware outbreaks for businesses in 2011 according to TriGeo. In addition to SEO poisoning attacks in 2011, companies should …

An office server on which the New Hampshire Seacoast Radiology had stored sensitive personal and medical information of more than 230,000 patients has been breached in …

The web server of CitySights NY – a company that organizes tours around New York on double-decker buses – has been breached and names, addresses, e-mail addresses, …