Experi-Metal, Inc. had their online business banking account taken over by hackers who stole their password in an email phishing scam. The hackers logged into the company’s online bank account at Comerica bank, and wired almost $2 Million out of the account. Comerica bank was able to recover about $1.5M, but the company was left [...]
Experi-Metal, Inc. had their online business banking account taken over by hackers who stole their password in an email phishing scam. The hackers logged into the company’s online bank account at Comerica bank, and wired almost $2 Million out of the account. Comerica bank was able to recover about $1.5M, but the company was left [...]
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid has been fined $1 Million for violating privacy standards of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It is good to see that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) put some teeth into the HIPAA act, and actually extract a meaningful fine for violating the personal privacy rules of the [...]
A forum at Dell’s website has described that replacement R410 server motherboards that are infected with malware/spyware have been shipped by the company to customers. Apparently the systems management firmware has been compromised in the manufacturing supply chain, and has been infected with malicious software. Dell is calling customers to warn them of the malware [...]
I was in the United Kingdom last week. The UK government is said to be ready to sign a law that would permit police from other EU countries to demand details of UK citizens suspected of crimes in other countries. Details that could be released to foreign police include banking records, phone records, and even [...]
Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, from the Black Forest area near Adelaide, Australia, yesterday pled guilty to computer hacking. He admitted to infecting 3,000 computers with a banking trojan that allowed him to steal online bank account login details and credit card information. He also admitted to infecting a further 74,000 computers with a bot designed [...]
London, UK. Conservative Member of Parliament Rob Halfon claims that the UK government is not doing enough to investigate privacy invasions by Internet companies. He warns that if government does not take more action to investigate Internet companies that are accused of privacy violations, the UK risks having a “privatized version of Big Brother”. His [...]
I am in London, UK this week. The UK Ministry of Defense has admitted to losing 340 laptops over the last two years, and less than half of them were encrypted. A further 215 USB memory sticks were lost, and many were not encrypted either. When you add up lost mobile phones, CDs, PDAs as [...]
Zeus is a prolific trojan that is designed to allow cyber criminals to break into corporate online banking accounts and allow criminals to transfer large amounts of money from company bank accounts. A new version of the Zeus trojan has been detected that tries to steal Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode passwords, allowing criminals [...]
Mozilla has disabled a Firefox browser plug-in, Mozilla Sniffer, that steals your usernames and passwords and sends them to a third party website that cyber-criminals presumably use.
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