‘Highly sophisticated malware’ stole credit card data from 3M Michaels customers
After LaCie announced earlier this week it was the victim of a massive credit card breach that lasted for a year, crafts store Michaels revealed …
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Change your Kickstarter password right now
Kickstarter on Saturday acknowledged a hack that occurred on Wednesday night, advising users to immediately change the passwords of their accounts. According to the company, …
How to tell if your Gmail account was hacked
The recent breach of Yahoo’s Yahoo Mail servers is the latest in a string of high-profile hacks that have taken center stage in the tech …
Target hack not possible without some old-school theft
The massive hack that hit Target in the weeks before Christmas 2013 wouldn’t have been possible without someone actually stealing the credentials of a vendor, …
Target data hack only the beginning of massive, sophisticated attack
The Target data breach may be just the tip of the iceberg in what seems to be a massive sophisticated attack on U.S. retailers that …
Expert who first revealed massive Target hack tells us how it happened
More unofficial details about the late 2013 Target hack that exposed up to 40 million credit and debit cards and personal data for up to …
Hackers attack Neiman Marcus, others in Target-like fashion
Target was not the only retail chain under attack during the 2013 Black Friday hack, with Neiman Marcus and other unnamed retailers confirmed to have …
The latest malware innovation: Infect ATMs and have them pump out cash
Hackers in Europe managed to target several cash machines from an unnamed bank earlier last year by infecting them with malware from USB drives, BBC …
Even tiny microSD cards have chips that can be hacked
Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross have discovered a way to hack even the small microSD cards that go inside current smartphones and tablets …
Target: Yes, hackers got encrypted PINs along with stolen cards
Target on Friday confirmed that hackers managed to steal encrypted data including encrypted PINs, as reported by Reuters earlier this week, but added that the PIN numbers …
Reuters: Target hackers got encrypted bank PINs as well
The hackers who managed to steal data for up to 40 million credit cards used in Target stores on Black Friday and in following weeks …
Study: People are way more worried about hackers than online tracking
Nearly every action you take while online is monitored by advertisers, from the products you buy to the links that you click. Ads are tailor-made …
Hackers ‘shopped’ for millions of credit cards at Target on Black Friday [Update]
UPDATE: Target on Thursday confirmed that 40 million credit and debit cards were breached between November 27 and December 15, ZDNet reports, with hackers stealing personal …
What goes around, comes around: U.S. hackers attack China
Dozens of reports of cyber-attacks on U.S. companies originating in China have emerged over the past few years. But as these attacks were taking place, …
Untold number of Twitter accounts potentially hacked [updated]
Twitter users are reporting everywhere that their accounts have been compromised, reports TechCrunch. The tech blog says many users have received emails telling them to change …
Hackers crack Sony PlayStation 3 again, leak console’s encryption keys
Two more months and Sony (SNE) would have made it through the entire year without any drama involving hackers trying to crack its console security …
Anonymous shows its softer side, goes to bat for children’s charity
Anonymous isn’t all about Guy Fawkes masks and news casts with creepy automated voices; sometimes it’s about helping others. As Network World’s Paul McNamara reports, some …
Hackers publish 11 million gamer passwords online
A user at password-hacking forum Inside Pro earlier this month published a half-gigabyte file that contained as many as 11 million passwords collected from users at …
Hacker claims to have accessed 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm
An Internet hacker belonging to a group called TeamGhostShell broke into recruiting website ITWallStreet.com, Computer World reported. The information compromised, which includes full names, mailing …
‘Anonymous’ hacker group declares war on pedophiles [video]
The U.S. Government and various global authorities label “Anonymous” as cyberterrorist and criminals, but others refer to the group as freedom fighters and protectors of …
Anonymous urges public to protest the European Union and INDECT [video]
Notorious hacker-activist group Anonymous is back with another operation that aims to strike fear into the hearts of lawmakers in the European Union. While the …
Hacked companies start hacking back
More companies are risking escalating retaliation with the hacker community by directly going after hackers who break into their systems, Reuters reports.The publication describes the new …
Alleged LulzSec hacker indicted for media site breaches
An alleged LulzSec hacker won’t be having many more lulz if he’s thrown in jail. Per the Los Angeles Times, 20-year-old British man Ryan Cleary has …
Dark side of ‘Anonymous’ comes out in new interview
It’s no mystery that the hackers behind notorious “hacktivist” groups Anonymous and LulzSec cause a tremendous amount of trouble for the companies and agencies they …
Last.fm says user passwords were leaked
Custom Internet radio provider Last.fm on Thursday confirmed that passwords belonging to an unspecified number of it users have been compromised. “We are currently investigating the …
What it's like to get hacked
With “hacktivist” groups like Anonymous and stories like the LinkedIn security breach constantly popping up in the news, it’s easy to grow numb to matters …
'Anonymous' hackers release 1.7GB of stolen DOJ data
Hackers associated with well known hacker-activist group “Anonymous Operations” have released a massive cache of data they say was obtained when they hacked a website …
U.S. House passes CISPA
The United States House of Representatives has voted to pass the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), talk of which has swept the Internet …
Thousands rally against CISPA cybersecurity bill
The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which is supported by more than 100 members of the House of Representatives, is scheduled to …
Malware found to steal credit card data from hotel payment systems
Security firm Trusteer warned this week of a trojan that is capable of stealing an individual’s credit card information from hotels. The firm’s intelligence team …
