Dennis Culver reports: California State University officials said today the university’s East Bay information security team has discovered a breach in a web server used to store personal employee information. Officials said the security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year. The university learned through the subsequent investigation…
Category: Malware
Update: Goodwill POS malware breach impacted 868,000 credit and debit cards
Max Smolaks reports: US charity Goodwill Industries International has announced the results of a six week long investigation into a suspected data breach, admitting that around 868,000 customer credit and debit cards have been compromised. Read more on TechWeek Europe.
Target Wants Banks’ Claims Tossed In Data Breach MDL
This is where lawyers earn their keep: Target Corp. urged a Minnesota federal judge on Tuesday to toss a consolidated class action over the company’s massive data breach, arguing that the bank plaintiffs cannot claim negligence because they do not have a direct relationship with Target. Target argues that under state law, merchants aren’t liable…
The unknown cyber threats sweeping Sweden
Melanie Watson writes: Over a four-week period earlier this year, KPMG studied [14 organizations] in Sweden to gather information relating to malicious traffic. During this time period, 15,586 security alerts were recorded. […] Astonishingly, 93% of those organisations that took part were ‘breached’ in the given time frame. The word ‘breached’ in this report has been defined by…
Goodwill starts identifying stores impacted by payment processor breach
Following up on a breach first disclosed by Brian Krebs: Goodwill Industries of Kansas has released a list of twenty stores across the state affected by a security breach it announced in July. The charity said it confirmed the breach after an extensive investigation. The Goodwill said the stores affected used the same third-party vendor to…
How Statoil held off hacker attack last year
It’s always helpful when companies are willing to talk about what happened when they were attacked. In the wake of yesterday’s report about major Norwegian oil firms being attacked or warned of attacks, Statoil revealed that it was also the target of a massive attack last year. As reported on NewsinEnglish.no: “It started on March…