A 23-year-old British hacker who swiped the identities of 8 million victims and shut down part of Nokia’s internal network for two weeks will spend the next 26 months behind bars. Edward Pearson, from York, in Northern England, used several covert cyberweapons, including the notorious bank-account-stealing Zeus Trojan, to steal…
Global Payments Breach Affects 1.5 Million Payment Card Accounts (April 2, 2012)
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Global Payments Breach Affects 1.5 Million Payment Card Accounts (April 2, 2012)
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Firm dropped by Visa says under 1.5 million card numbers stolen
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Visa Inc has dropped payment processor Global Payments Inc from its list of approved service providers after a major cyber intrusion that could expose Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover card holders to fraud. Global Payments said it believes less than 1.5 million credit card numbers…
Hacker tries to steal $1.8 million
ARLINGTON, Texas, April 1 (UPI) — Officials say a hacker attempted to steal $1.8 million from the Arlington, Texas, city treasury, but was foiled by treasury staff who recovered the money. Investigators declined to release further details about the incident, which occurred in late February, saying the investigation is ongoing….
Computer system dropped after $500 million spent
The plug has been pulled on one of the biggest boondoggles in California history – the effort to build a $2 billion computer system linking the state's 58 county courts. It never worked, and some say it was doomed from the start. The program had run so amok,… View full…
Computer hacker tries to steal $1.8 million from Arlington’s bank account
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Security Troubles At Visa And Mastercard Could Affect 10 Million Cards
Card giants Visa and Mastercard are apparently dealing with a massive security breach that could involve more than 10 million credit and debit cards. View full post on could security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Google Offers $1 Million in Hacker Bounties for Exploits Against Chrome
It may be hard out there for a pimp, but it just got a little bit more lucrative for a hacker. Google announced on Monday that it would pay $1 million in cash awards to anyone who can hack its Chrome browser during its Pwnium security challenge next week in…
Malware Crosses 75 Million Samples in 2011
“The threat landscape continued to evolve in 2011, and we saw a significant shift in motivation for cyber attacks,” said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs. “Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organisation, platform or device is immune to the increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats. On a global basis,…