Kim Zetter dips into Verizon’s new report and relays details of how Yastermskiy was eventually captured and arrested: A Ukrainian carder who earned more than $11 million selling credit and debit card data stolen from top U.S. retailers was lured to a meeting in Turkey in 2007 where he was arrested by local authorities, according…
TX: Private information lands in dumpster near Interstate 10
Sarah Forgany reports: Imagine your most private information falling into the wrong hands. That’s what some people dealt with after nearly 75 legal files were found in a dumpster off Interstate 10 near Boerne. It only took a few minutes to realize the paperwork was no trash. Rather, it included information like peoples’ lives, names,…
2010 Data Breach Report From Verizon Business, U.S. Secret Service Offers New Cybercrime Insights
From the press release: The 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, based on a first-of-its kind collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service, has found that breaches of electronic records last year involved more insider threats, greater use of social engineering and the continued strong involvement of organized criminal groups. The study, released Wednesday (July 28),…
NY: Cable guy guilty of ID theft
A Time Warner Cable (“TWC”) technician, who illegally installed a spyware program on three of his employers’ computers to enable him to gain unauthorized access to TWC’s customer database and billing system, was convicted on all eight counts against him. The jury convicted Louis Puesan, 45, of multiple counts, including computer trespass, computer tampering in…
Botnet mastermind who infected 12m PCs nabbed : FBI
International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials said A 23-year-old Slovenian known as Iserdo was snagged in Maribor, Slovenia, after a lengthy investigation by Slovenian Criminal Police there along…
Potential security breach at Cooper Univ. Hospital
Katherine Scott reports: A thumb drive that contained personal data about current and past graduate medical education residents and fellows at Cooper University Hospital has gone missing. Hospital sources tell Action News the thumb drive went missing on July 8th. […] Stolen or lost, both scenarios are cause for concern according to Drexel University’s Robert…