Seth Rosenblatt of CNET reports: A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET’s website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data. A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that…
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Farrah Abraham’s frozen yogurt website hacked
The website for Farrah Abraham’s new frozen yogurt shop was hacked, and its homepage replaced with a graphic clip from her sex tape. Read more on FoxNews.
Computer Hacker Pleads Guilty In Credit, Debit Card Scheme
A 27-year-old computer hacker pleaded guilty Friday to being part of an international conspiracy to steal account information from major banks in the United States in order to steal money from ATMs all over the world. As WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported, Qendrim Dobruna admitted to hacking into the systems of J.P. Morgan Chase, which processed transactions by the…
No likely data breach from reported Chinese hacking: US
AFP reports: The personal data of thousands of U.S. government workers was not compromised in a recently reported cyber attack, officials said Thursday amid fresh allegations that Chinese hackers accessed computers housing employee information. The Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Homeland Security took steps to mitigate the possible breach as soon as…
SingPass breach: time for government agencies to take security more seriously
Alfred Siew reports: Perhaps the worst thing that can happen after the recent SingPass security breach is to assume it cannot happen again. This idea that everything is working fine is foolhardy, after news last week that three of the 1,560 compromised SingPass accounts were used to apply for work permits. Thus it’s disappointing to hear the government saying there are no…
Russian hacker captured in 2010 Broadway Grill data breach
A 30-year-old Russian man was arrested over the weekend for a series of crimes involving hacking into point of sales systems at Washington restaurants including a data breach in 2010 that involved stealing credit card information from hundreds of customers of Capitol Hill’s Broadway Grill. The allegations detail at least $1.7 million in losses to banks and…