Viber is a big name in smart phones , it use to free text sending and receiving , free calling , pictures and documents sharing via your internet viber to viber University of New Haven (UNH) in Connecticut, US researcher researched , viber send messages in unencrypted form , it…
Data Breach at Michaels Stores Exposes 3 Million Credit Cards.
Approximately 2.6 million payment cards used at Michael’s locations were accessed, along with 400,000 cards used at Aaron Brothers. After a thorough analysis it was discovered that the reason behind was an attack by criminals using highly sophisticated malware which was not encountered previously by any of the security firm….
UPMC Data Breach Affects 27,000 Employees
Though it’s not yet clear how the data was accessed, at least 788 UPMC employees have already been victims of tax fraud. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) recently announced that as many as 27,000 of its 62,000 employees may have been affected by a recent data breach that…
88% U.S. Consumers Are Worried About Data Privacy
A recent GfK survey of 1,000 U.S. citizens has found that 88 percent of respondents are at least “a little” concerned about the privacy of their personal data. The poll, conducted from March 7 to 9, 2014, also found that one third of consumers were directly impacted by the misuse…
SUE firms over data breaches – FTC gets judicial thumbs-up
For Data breaches, US federal judge took a very positive step and affirmed the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to file lawsuits against companies for failing to take “reasonable and appropriate” data security measures, rejecting a claim that the agency lacks that power. District Judge Esther Salas of the US District…
Deltek’s GovWin IQ website Got Hacked , Clients data compromised
Deltek an Enterprise software and Information solution providing company suffered a data breach in which hack hacked into Govwin IQ Ecommerce website. Hacker stole 25,000 credit cards of Individuals along with 80,000 employees of federal contractors . Deltek have started notifying its customers about recent data breach along with…
Another Hackers Busted for telecom data leak.
Federal investigation agency has arrested a hacker for stealing the database of a telecom company in Pakistan. FIA and NR3C with the help of local authorities traced down and arrest a hackers, who they claimed, had brok into Warid’s servers, stolen the companies customers’ database and uploaded it online on…
Boxee.tv breach exposed data of 1,54000 users
Ars reports that last week’s hack of Boxee revealed the data, including username, email address, passwords and forum messages of over 154000 users. The data is published online in a massive MySQL file of about 800 MB in size which is still circulating online. Boxee.tv is a web based tv…
Russian Cyber Command Hacked SearchInform, Data Leaked
SearchInform a well known Russian cyber security firm , which deal in Data protection and Security solutions gets hacked by a group of hackers claiming to be the Russian Cyber Command, Hackers said that they compromised company’s infrastructure from there public support in 2012. Just after the anouncment company tool…
University of Wisconsin got Hacked 15,000 students data at risk
Recently, University of Wisconsin has been notifying its students that its server had been compromised by an unknown hacker. The university believes the hacker has stolen the critical information of over 15000 of its students. The data potentially exposed includes the names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and Social Security numbers…