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.
Microsoft issued an advisory warning of a local privilege escalation zero day in Windows XP being exploited in the wild. Experts, meanwhile, renew their calls to move off XP, which will no longer be supported as of April 2014.
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.
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.
Buried underneath the ever-growing pile of information about the mass surveillance methods of the NSA is a small but significant undercurrent of change that’s being driven by the anger and resentment of the large tech companies that the agency has used as tools in its collection programs. The changes have been happening since almost the […]
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.
The hacker behind a breach of MacRumors Forums, a popular Macintosh discussion forum, said none of the 860,000 passwords will be leaked, calling the attack “friendly.”
Facebook users who log in to the social network and Adobe accounts with the same username-password combination are being required to change their Facebook passwords.
Microsoft today issued eight bulletins addressing 19 separate vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system, Internet Explorer Web browser, Office, and other products.
Microsoft announced today that a patch for the Internet Explorer zero day vulnerability was already set to be included in tomorrow’s Patch Tuesday updates.
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