About
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
An employee at University of Washington Medicine in Seattle may have exposed the personal information of more than 90,000 Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center patients.
The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the active Attorney General there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine for Bitcoins.
The price for Fullz, the information identity thieves crave, has dropped to between $25 and $40 according to a report on the underground economy by Dell SecureWorks.
Hackers breached servers in January belonging to Cupid Media, a service with 30 million users, stealing more than 42 million unencrypted passwords and various other sensitive data.
Google has expanded the bounds of its Patch Rewards Program to include open source components of Android, Apache, Sendmail, OpenVPN and other services.
The popular humor website, Cracked[dot]com reportedly hosted malware that infected the machines of of its visitors over the weekend and may still be doing so, according to Barracuda Labs research.
Washington D.C. – Senator Al Franken presided over a hearing today in which lawmakers and technology experts discussed the National Security Administration’s surveillance practices, examining a proposed bill that would require that the U.S. spy agency carry out its operations in a more transparent fashion.
Microsoft today issued eight bulletins addressing 19 separate vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system, Internet Explorer Web browser, Office, and other products.
D-Link’s 2760N (DSL-2760U-BN) routers allegedly contain a number of stored and reflective cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.
More trouble for Bitcoin this week after an Australian wallet service admitted that attackers broke into their systems and made off with more than $1.2 million worth of the the pseudo-anonymous digital crypto-currency.
Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics. Content strives to be of the highest quality, objective and non-commercial.
Sponsored Content is paid for by an advertiser. Sponsored content is written and edited by members of our sponsor community. This content creates an opportunity for a sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to the Threatpost audience. The Threatpost editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of Sponsored Content.
