Hackers have recorded calls between staff manning Britain’s anti-terrorist hotline, Scotland Yard revealed on Thursday, in the second security breach involving the force in recent months. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
Malware breached 75M mark in 2011 —McAfee report
More than 75 million samples of malware were recorded in 2011, with those targeting mobile devices on the rise, according to security vendor McAfee. McAfee Labs senior vice-president Vincent Weafer said threats highly evolved in 2011, according to a report on PC World. “Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organization, platform…
TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers
TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that…
Saudi Arabian official denies Saudi citizens’ bank information breached by Israeli hackers
CAIRO – A top Saudi banking official on Tuesday denied an Israeli media report that hackers from Israel obtained credit card and bank account details of thousands of Saudi citizens, retaliating for an attack on Israeli accounts. View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View…
Care2.com social network accounts breached by hackers
Care2.com, a social networking website for activists, has decided to reset the account passwords of almost 18 million registered members after hackers gained access to its servers. The compromise was discovered last Tuesday and, according to the company operating the website, it only affected a limited number of accounts. However,…
Stratfor Taps CSID To Protect Identities Breached In Cyberattack
Attacks resulted in the unauthorized disclosure of personal information View full post on cyber security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
EFF Says At least Four Certificate Authorities Have Been Breached Since June (October 27, 2011)
According to research from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), at least four certificate authorities have been compromised since June 2011……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans Security Expert Gregory Evans on Cyber Crime
Comodo hacker: I hacked DigiNotar too; other CAs breached
The hack of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar already bore many similarities to the break-in earlier this year that occurred at a reseller for CA Comodo. Bogus certificates were issued for webmail systems, which were in turn used to intercept Web traffic in Iran. Another similiarity has since emerged: the perpetrator…
Defense Contractor Vanguard Breached by AntiSec, Hacker Group Leaks 1GB Sensitive Data
Working under the hacktivist banner of AntiSec, yet another defense contractor has been struck by hackers who released over a gigabyte of sensitive information. The contractor hit, Vangaurd Defense Industries, just happens to have a connection to InfraGard, an FBI … Continue reading → Defense Contractor Vanguard Breached by AntiSec,…