Regional Virginia Bank Falls Victim to Coordinated $2.4M ATM Heist
The bank is also suing its insurance carrier for not covering the full extent of the damage.
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Serco: ‘Sophisticated’ Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k
Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company’s system.
EMC Buys Security Firm NetWitness
UPDATE: Call it ‘dancing with the girl that brought ‘ya,’: two weeks after it disclosed a serious security breach at its RSA Security Division, tech firm EMC said it was buying NetWitness, a threat analysis firm that helped it detect the breach in the first place.
The City of Norfolk, Virginia is reeling from a massive computer meltdown in which an unidentified family of malicious code destroyed data on nearly 800 computers citywide. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
The parade of large-scale data losses is continuing unabated. The latest incident involves an unencrypted Flash drive containing the personal information of more than 100,000 adult education students in Virginia.
From WaPo Security Fix (Brian Krebs)
Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site’s homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for leaked documents. Read the full story [washingtonpost.com]
