Online retailer Zappos has been hacked. Its CEO, Tony Hsieh, posted a copy of an email notification explaining the breach to all employees with a copy of the email notification sent to customers: The following email was sent to our employees today: Subject: Important – Security Dear Zappos Employees – Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully…
Category: Breach Incidents
Chinese hackers Going After Smart Card Details
In another event that was to be expected America has come out saying that Chinese based hacker have been obtaining smart card details via a well known Trojan that has been modified to seek out the smart card data. US Military, air force, navy and other agencies use the smart cards of a way to access building,…
City College has had virus infection since 1999
Roll back the calender to 1999, the world was a much different places, technology was growing at a faster pace then ever before and so was a virus. San Francisco City College has only just recently discovered a virus that has taken over there system and spread like wildfire. From this they have been doing…
Computer Virus takes out towns payroll computer
In light of some recent virus attacks another one has come out which has left a small village without a computer to do all the funding and payrolls. The tow, DALZELL which is a part of Bureau county suffered from a virus that totalled the computer leaving in a un-usable state. Now the point i want to get…
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Hit by Virus
IT was bound to happen sooner or later, a space agency is now reporting that it has suffered from a unknown virus attack from unknown sources. JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is reporting that is has found traces of a active data mining virus. The virus which has been targeting information about the unmanned spacecrafts that…
Credit Card Dumps
IT seems that 2012 is year of the credit card hackers, with hundreds of thousands of cards being leaked this year already it has turned into a daily thing. Just today we have been notified of 3 more credit leaks, 1 from Australia, 1 from Israel and another from a variety of Arabic country’s. It…