Attackers used the infamous SpyEye Trojan to target Verizon’s online billing page for nearly a week earlier this month, trying to nab users’ sensitive personal and financial information, researchers say.
Microsoft has released a new version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, a free download that gives IT staffs the ability to better defend against exploit attempts. The EMET now includes support, as well.
Sony was forced to shut down their PlayStation Network and Qriocity password reset pages today, just days after they finally brought the gaming platform back online following nearly a month of outage stemming from an “external intrusion.”
Mobile malware is on track to double again in 2011, as it has every year since 2007, according to a report from Kaspersky Lab.
A public demonstration of a weakness in Facebook’s account security has attracted the attention of law enforcement in Australia and raised questions about the ability of social networks to protect user data.
In the course of the last five or six years, there has come to be a fairly well-established and familiar cycle for data breaches. Company X discovers an attack that compromised some customer data; it investigates and assesses the damage; it reports the breach to the relevant authorities and apologizes publicly while absorbing a beating from the press and angry customers; it moves on with its business. But Sony officials have added another link to that chain–the righteous defense–and in the process may have changed forever the way that companies handle data breaches.
An untold number of computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services were compromised in April, leading state officials to warn hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information may have been stolen as part of the attack. However, officials said they are unsure at this point whether any data was actual stolen, and if so, how much.
Small businesses aren’t taking the necessary precautions to protect themselves from cyber attacks, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) – but Uncle Sam wants to help.
A hacker is claiming that a security hole in a server at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has exposed data related to a satellite-based Earth observation system used to aid in disaster relief.
Sony’s PlayStation Network began a gradual restoration process on
Saturday following a hack that brought about nearly a month of downtime.
But in Sony’s home country of Japan, an official says the government
will keep the network dark until it is convinced that the company has
taken adequate steps to secure it.
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