The Verizon DBIR says hacktivists conduct opportunistic attacks targeting mainly large businesses using tactics akin to a smash-and-grab burglary, stealing any data they can access. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
‘Hacktivists’ pose biggest data breach threat, study finds
A tiny but motivated band of ‘hacktivists’ are supplanting professional criminals as the biggest single data breach threat to large enterprises, an analysis of hundreds of confirmed incident reports has found. On the face of it, the numbers in Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report (which covers 2011) suggest that…
Lake Worth school district alerts workers of potential computer breach
LAKE WORTH — Employees of the Lake Worth school district were notified Thursday of a potential computer security breach, Superintendent Janice Cooper said. View full post on computer security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
ProtectMyID: #Truesday: Business data breaches result in more exposed records than any other type of data breach. T or F?
ProtectMyID: #Truesday: Business data breaches result in more exposed records than any other type of data breach. T or F? View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Cheshire East Council fined £80,000 for email data breach
Cheshire East Council has been hit with a £80,000 fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), after an employee sent an email containing sensitive information using her personal email account rather than via the council’s secure system. The employee was asked to contact the local voluntary sector co-ordinator in May,…
Nortel management may have known of hacker breach
Former Nortel CEO Frank Dunn, now being tried for fraud, was among several senior company managers who were aware of a longstanding data breach into Nortel’s computers systems, but chose to do nothing. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal, former Nortel employee Brian Shields led an investigation and…
Philips investigates possible cyber security breach
Philips Electronics said it shut down one of its servers on Monday because of a possible cyber attack and that it was investigating the nature and extent of the information that might have been accessed. … View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post…
Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds
Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can’t detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested. Trustwave’s 2012 Global Security Report studied 300 incidents across 18 countries where the company’s SpiderLabs division was called into investigate what had gone…
DreamHost websites abused by spammers following security breach
The security breach suffered by DreamHost in January has resulted in hundreds of rogue PHP pages redirecting users to work-at-home scams, according to researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler. DreamHost decided to reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers after discovering that hackers compromised one…
Citi Hit By Hacker Group; Reports No Data Breach
AP Hacker group hampered the sites of Citigroup Inc. and other prominent institutions. A computer hacker group on Friday continued a wave of attacks against Brazilian financial websites, hampering the sites of Citigroup Inc. and other prominent institutions. The group, which dubbed itself Anonymous Brasil, took aim at a series…