Odisha student arrested for hacking into Lloyd Electrical and Engineering...
Anand Narayanaswamy reports: Hacking is not an easy task but for Himalaya Mohanty, a 19-year old student currently pursuing his ITI course in Odisha, it was just a fun which turned into nightmare....
View ArticleTelecom giant accuses employee of data theft
A telecom in India has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee for stealing proprietary information on his way out. Times of India doesn’t name the employee, but the firm seems to be...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s disturbing breach notice
Computerworld editor Evan Schuman has an opinion piece that begins: Late last Wednesday (May 25), LinkedIn casually sent a note to its customers that opened with one of the least-calming phrases...
View ArticleTeamViewer denies hack after PCs hijacked, PayPal accounts drained
Shaun Nichols reports: TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied after the software company’s systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked....
View ArticleScrum.org hacked, may have lost crypto keys and some user data
Simon Sharwood reports: Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site run by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber, appears to have contacted users to warn them of a nasty security breach. Reg reader...
View ArticleRedskins notes: Laptop with medical data stolen from trainer
Michael Phillips reports: The Redskins announced Wednesday that a laptop was stolen from a team trainer that may have contained medical information about current and former NFL players. The NFL Players...
View ArticleThe huge Dropbox password leak that wasn’t
Graham Cluley reports: …as Brian Krebs reports, recent claims from identity theft protection firms that Dropbox has suffered a massive password breach appear to be erroneous. Troy Hunt – who knows a...
View ArticleMajor insurer does not have to cover restaurant chain’s data breach
Lyle Adriano reports that some of P.F. Chang’s breach-related costs are not covered by its insurance: A federal court ruled that Chubb Ltd. does not have to reimburse P.F. Chang’s for costs the...
View ArticleCowboys Casino warns personal information may have been leaked in data breach
Chris Bowen reports: Cowboys Casino is investigating a possible data breach after its computer system was the target of a cyber-attack. The establishment says its IT experts took immediate actions and...
View ArticleBanks: Credit Card Breach at CiCi’s Pizza
Brian Krebs reports: CiCi’s Pizza, an American fast food business based in Coppell, Texas with more than 500 stores in 35 states, appears to be the latest restaurant chain to struggle with a credit...
View Article100 million accounts for VK, Russia’s Facebook, show up on dark web
Joseph Cox reports: Accounts for over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being traded on the digital underground. Breach notification site LeakedSource obtained the data and...
View ArticleWoman charged with altering and stealing computer files from Cree
WRAL reports: A Cary woman has been charged with illegally accessing and altering computer files at Durham-based LED manufacturer Cree Inc., according to an arrest warrant. Huili Cui, 50, of 521...
View ArticleInfo on international students and hosting families exposed in misconfigured...
It may be hard to resist naming a database after a favorite movie, but a database named “Coruscant” caught a researcher’s eye when the researcher was searching Shodan.io for exposed databases. And the...
View ArticleuTorrent forums hacked, change your passwords
Ernesto writes: The uTorrent community forums have been hacked, exposing the private details of hundreds of thousands of users. The hackers were able to get their hands on the user database, and a...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Holds Insurers Have Duty to Defend Data Trap Lawsuit
Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP write: In its recent decision in Nat’l Fire Ins. Co. v. E. Mishan & Sons, Inc., 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 10151 (2d Cir. June 1, 2016), the United States...
View ArticleFormer Agilent Technologies employee pleads guilty to damaging ex-employer’s...
Kenneth Kezeor pleaded guilty Tuesday to intentionally damaging a protected computer by attacking a corporate computer application of his former employer. The plea was announced by United States...
View ArticleLeakedSource uploads data set with 32,888,300 Twitter credentials
From LeakedSource: Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of...
View ArticleThere’s the Beef: Wendy’s Breach Numbers About to Get Much Meatier
Brian Krebs reports: When news broke last month that the credit card breach at fast food chain Wendy’s impacted fewer than 300 out of the company’s 5,800 locations, the response from many readers was,...
View ArticleInsurance agents in Virginia may have had personal data stolen
Kimberley Pierceall reports: If you sold insurance in Virginia but your license lapsed or expired between 1979 and 2004, a state agency suspects your personal information may have been stolen....
View ArticleDell Official Website Subdomains Hacked By Kurdish Hackers
TapScape reports: A Kurdish hacker codenamed “MuhmadEmad” from the hacktivist group “KurdLinux_Team” have managed to gain unauthorized access to Dell’s official website subdomains and leaving them...
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