Kim Zetter reports: It’s been three weeks since Google announced that it and numerous other U.S. companies were targeted in a recent sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora. Until now we’ve only known that the attackers got in through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer and that they obtained intellectual property and access to…
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NM: Credit theft sours winery experience
Ashley Meeks reports: It certainly wasn’t the wine or the bowtie pasta at St. Clair Winery & Bistro that left a bad taste in Bianca Villani’s mouth. It was the call from Visa, informing her that someone in Maryland was trying to put hundreds of dollars of purchases on her card and the cards of…
Data breach: Trail points to China in Iowa computer hack
William Petroski reports: Iowa investigators suspect a serious breach of a state government computer database last week originated in China, which a congressional panel says has increased its use of cyber espionage tactics. The hackers gained access to a computer system operated by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission. The breach allowed access to personal…
Iowa racetrack and casino employee data on hacked server
The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission said Friday that its database containing licensing information of racetrack and casino employees had been compromised after a firewall was breached by an outside Internet address. A news release issued by the commission said that the breach took place Tuesday when one of the firewalls “was circumvented due to…
Clinton urges China to investigate breaches
Robert Burns of the Associated Press reports: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday urged China to investigate cyber intrusions that led Google to threaten to pull out of that country – and challenged Beijing to publish its findings. “Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users…
25,000 Indian email ids found on hacker forums
Thanuja BM reports: The last couple of years have seen criminals hacking websites to steal personal information for monetary gains. Now, security firm Trend Micro has come out with a report which said that there are about 25,000 Indian email addresses and passwords on different hacker forums on the internet. The report further stated that…