Data loss
Cybercrooks siphon $800,000 from US fuel distribution firm
Thieves drained $800,000 from a fuel distribution company in the US state of North Carolina earlier this month - a loss that the company attributes to its bank's having recently upgraded security systems. Unfortunately, its insurance policy won't come close to covering its losses.
Only 36% of small firms apply security patches. No wonder cybercrooks are stealing their cash
Small businesses are under constant attack from malware, scams and online fraud. They are simply woefully under-prepared to keep their assets safe. Despite reorganisation and redirected priorities, the police can still do little to help. Here are some general tips from the FSB to help firms better protect themselves.
Small businesses beware! Point-of-sale malware is after you
Malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has been a major trend for the last six months. With easy pickings to be had from mom-and-pop shops, this pattern is only going to grow until people start fighting back with better system security, and ideally better payment card systems.
Virus Bulletin's Technical Director John Hawes takes a look....
Operation Aurora hack was counterespionage, not China picking on Tibetan activists
Claims are made that the Aurora hackers weren't just Chinese-sponsored hackers bent on messing with Tibetan activists.
Rather it was a Chinese counterintelligence operation that sought to discover if the US had uncovered the identity of clandestine agents operating within its borders.
SSCC 109 - Laptop theft, money mules, LulzSec, Microsoft and more [PODCAST]
Episode #109 of our popular Chet Chat podcast series is out.
Chet and Duck are back with their almost entirely reverent opinions on the latest computer security issues.
22 million user IDs may be in the hands of hackers, after Yahoo Japan security breach
The call has gone out to Yahoo Japan's 200 million users to change their passwords, after the company warned that it suspected hackers had managed to access a file containing 22 million user IDs.
Is your laptop still unencrypted? Perhaps 7 seconds of CCTV might change your mind...
Here's a video that might make you think twice about taking your laptop out into the world unencrypted.
This is "data theft" in the most literal sense...
Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week
It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days.
Subway multimillion-dollar hack ringleader pleads guilty
Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, a Romanian national and the alleged ringleader of the gang responsible for a multimillion-dollar hack of the Subway fast-food chain, has pleaded guilty.
Snapchat images that have "disappeared forever" stay right on your phone...
Snapchat claims to let you share even "ugly selfies" because once they're viewed they "disappear forever."
US-based computer forensics geek Richard Hickman thought he'd find out how true that claim was...
Sex and the City author hacked, draft of new book is leaked online
Candace Bushnell has her Twitter hacked, and her email, and a draft version of her upcoming book leaked onto the net.
Name.com suffers breach, credit card data accessed, encryption in place (phew!)
Domain registrar and web hosting company Name.com, part of the Demand Media group, has suffered a data breach.
Crooks have apparently made off with data up to and including credit card numbers...but it sounds as though everything was encrypted, which is a silver lining.
Lack of Chip and PIN technology leaves US shoppers and diners at risk from hackers
Despite being one of the biggest economies for the retail and 'food and beverage' industries, the US lacks basic card protection that could prevent data thieves from Americans' bank accounts.
Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Get up to date with everything we wrote in the past seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Reputation.com resets all user passwords following breach
Fortunately, the few passwords that were nabbed were salted and hashed. Also, the company doesn't request sensitive information such as Social Security Numbers and doesn't store financial data such as credit card numbers or bank accounts.
Kudos for good security practices, guys.
Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Catch up with all the security news from the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial "special offers" site hacked
LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach.
Another day, another shed-load of password hashes in the hands of crooks....
How effective are data breach penalties? Are ever-bigger fines enough?
Since 2011, data security company ViaSat UK has spiced up the Infosecurity Europe conference by filing a Freedom of Information request for data breach statistics.
In previous years they've fallen out with the regulators over the matter, but things turned out better in 2013...
XKCD cartoon reminds users to log out for better security
It's disturbing just how many people seem to leave their computers permanently logged in to online services. An XKCD cartoon teaches us all an important security lesson.
How to plan what will happen to your private Google data after you die
Google has launched a new tool that lets users plan what will happen to their private data after they die.
Will you use it?
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