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…
ProtectMyID: Scary Stuff! In 2011, 258 data breaches resulted in the exposure of nearly 18.5 million SSNs, @ITRC reports. http://t.co/bECgm8Qt
ProtectMyID: Scary Stuff! In 2011, 258 data breaches resulted in the exposure of nearly 18.5 million SSNs, @ITRC reports. http://t.co/bECgm8Qt View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
Zappos reports hacker attack
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 5–> PORTLAND, ORE. — Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers. Customers’ credit card and payment information was not stolen, but names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, the last four digits from…
88% increase in the number of 2011 cyber crime reports
The highest number of cases 5,328 involved cheating, followed by 3,751 cases of spam and 3,699 cases of hacking. -The Star/ANN View full post on cyber crime hacking – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
Japan testing ‘virus’ cyberdefence weapon, reports say
The Japanese authorities have tested a ‘virus’ cyberweapon capable of tracing and disabling computers being used in cyberattacks against the country, a newspaper in the country has reported. Quoting anonymous sources said to be connected to the project, The Yomiuri Shimbun said that Japan’s Defense Ministry’s Technical Research and Development…
Resort reports debit card fraud
The FBI, local law enforcement agencies and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians are looking into a security breach in a credit and debit card processing systems at the Pearl River Resort in Neshoba County. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post…
Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit
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Reports: ECU loses assistants to WSU
Former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach was introduced as Washington State’s head football coach earlier this week and he could already be impacting East Carolina’s coaching staff. View full post on cyber pirate – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Microsoft reviewing Windows Phone messaging bug reports
Microsoft Windows Phone engineers are reviewing a report that various messaging technologies can be used to send the phone into a reboot and then freeze its messaging centre, or hub. Currently, the only “fix” is a hard reset and wipe of the phone, according to WinRumors.com, which reported the attack…
Shell Point Village resident reports credit card fraud
Lee County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a case of credit card fraud at Shell Point Village. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security