A company known for burying bad information to improve its customers’ online images let everyone know this week its network was hacked. Reputation.com sent e-mails to thousands of customers in more than 100 countries to let them know of the attack.
Malware developers continue to clone SourceForge Web sites that appear to offer the source code for popular gaming software but are actually peddling malicious code tied to the ZeroAccess Trojan.
The popular daily deal site LivingSocial announced Monday it has abandoned the SHA1 hash for Blowfish’s bcrypt following a massive data breach that impacted 50 million customers.
A German security company spent 18 months analyzing malware among millions of Web sites ranked by the world’s most popular search engines and concluded Google was safer than Bing.
The streaming video service Vudu on Tuesday began resetting its customers’ passwords after thieves broke into the company’s Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters and stole a number of items, including hard drives holding customer data.
Updated 4/10/13: The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted 18-2 for the new version of CISPA, with the two dissents coming from Democrat members of the committee.
A report released Wednesday indicates an organization on average experiences a malware-related event every three minutes, often involving business-related spear phishing and targeting technology companies.
California, which set the standard for data breach notifications nationwide, is again seeking to set a precedent by becoming the first state in the nation to require companies upon request disclose to California consumers the data they’ve collected and to whom it was shared during the past year. They would be required to respond within 30 days and provide the report for free.
Less than a day after Apple announced a new two-factor authentication to better protect Apple ID and iCloud accounts, the company was scrambling to fix another major security hole with its own password reset tool.
The Chameleon botnet continues to steal millions of dollars from online advertisers through fraudulent clicks made by malware.
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