Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:36 PM/CST
More credit card numbers, email addresses and usernames and passwords were exposed in a hack on specialforces.com
Saturday, October 15, 2011 11:49 PM/CST
Just days after the SEC recommended companies disclose cyber-issues to investors, the regulatory body revealed third-party contractors had improper access to employee data.
Saturday, August 20, 2011 1:43 PM/CST
Users are often providing information that gives cyber-criminals the information they need to hijack accounts, according to a recent BullGuard survey.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:20 PM/CST
An analysis of the myBART.org data dump from Anonymous revealed that users were still using generic words for passwords that could possibly be re-used on other Websites.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 6:52 PM/CST
Rogelio Hackett, Jr pled guilty to stealing credit card numbers and selling them in a criminal enterprise that spanned nine years.
Friday, April 15, 2011 5:23 PM/CST
Lin Mun Poo, the serial hacker who hacked into the Federal Reserve and sold credit card numbers for $1,000 each, pleaded guilty today. Cyber-crime doesn't pay.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:55 AM/CST
Symantec recently launched a snazzy new sitelet with a daily summary of current online threats including malware, identity theft, fraud and spam to give IT professionals a sense of the day's security landscape.
Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:38 PM/CST
The US Department of Health and Human Services fined two medical institutions for a total of $5.3 million for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These are the first-ever penalties imposed since HIPAA went into effect in 2003.
Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:20 AM/CST
McAfee put the spotlight recently on yet another profitable activity of cyber-criminals - the forgery of passports and driver's licenses.
Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:44 AM/CST
Lars Harvey, CEO of Internet Identity, discusses how attackers are launching phishing attacks via text-message. The attacks often target customers of credit unions, and are designed to steal your account information.