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A botnet specialized in gift card fraud is using the infrastructure of nearly 1,000 websites to check the balance of several types of electronic gift cards in order to defraud legitimate card owners. Distil Networks, a cybersecurity firm specialized in bots attack detection, monitoring, and mitigation, says the botnet, nicknamed GiftGhostBot, has started attacks on […]
A hacking incident that occurred on March 12 and March 13 compromised more than 170,000 job-seeker accounts, as reported by Idaho Statesman. The accounts in question, active and past, are a part of a much larger group of 530,000 accounts registered with Idaho Department of Labor. The system under the attack, America’s Job Link, is a […]
Short Bytes: One of the biggest data breaches on the Friend Finder Network has compromised the details of 412 million users across various domains maintained by the company which provides 18+ services. LeakedSource which informed about the breach has mentioned that most of the passwords were in plain text. In a big data breach, dubbed […]
Short Bytes: Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has revealed that Facebook buys leaked passwords from black markets. The company does this exercise and matches the leaked passwords with the encrypted passwords of the users. This way, Facebook alerts the users who use weak passwords. Facebook is a technology giant that has to manage tons of […]
On Thursday Yahoo claimed a massive attack or yahoo data breach on its network in 2014 allowed hackers to steal data from half a billion users and may have been “state sponsored”. Full passwords, payment card data and bank account info weren’t targeted. A hacker was found to be selling login information related to 500 million Yahoo […]
The hacker is asking over $700,000 for the whole data. A hacker that goes by the name of TheDarkOverlord has put up for sale on the Dark Web three databases stolen from three healthcare institutions in the US. The hacker is selling the data on The Real Deal marketplace, and he says he breached these companies […]
User data of over 320,000 accounts with Time Warner Cable were stolen when a hack led to details like email ids and passwords to be compromised. Although it is said that no type of publicity is bad, Time Warner Cable would surely beg to differ. Time Warner Cable has attracted some unwanted attraction and has […]
Short Bytes: Increasing data breaches have made the personal identifiable information (PII) market very hot. The latest report outlines the different aspects of data breaches. Read more here. Recently I wrote a piece describing the ways to know if your identity was hacked/stolen in some recent data breach. Many of you are unaware of the […]
Short Bytes: Was your data compromised in the latest data breaches? How to know if you’ve been hacked? Here are the answers. The online world is becoming scarier each day and the possibility of getting hacked gets increased each time you sign into your online accounts. It’s possible that you haven’t been hacked yet, but you […]
Short Bytes: The first half of 2015 has been rocked by 888 incidents data breaches so far, leading to 245.9 million records compromised worldwide, as surveyed by Gemalto. It looks as if there is no end to hack attacks. As of today, data or information values much higher than money. The immense number of security breaches […]
Last week, hackers breached into the servers of Web.com group, (a reputable online web services provider) and managed to access and steal the credit card information of about 93,000 customers. So if you are a Web.com customer then we will suggest you to keep an eye on the fraudulent transactions against your credit card. [must […]
The officials at The Penn State College of Engineering announced that its servers were attacked in two “extremely sophisticated” cyber-attacks and as a result, personal data of 18k folks was affected. On Friday (15th of May) the Penn State University said that its College of Engineering was attacked by two cyber-attacks, one in 2012 which […]
Twenty five international cyber criminals (who were involved hacking into banking systems and making of clone payment cards) are arrested by the Romanian authorities this week. The group made over US$15 million from these crimes. They are now detained by the Romanian authorities. The Group includes 52 members, including members from Romania and other nationalities. […]
The hackers from DarkWeb Goons have breached into the WOM Vegas site, left with leaking over 10,000 user login credentials few hours ago. The hackers who announced the breach on their official Twitter account left the data on Pastebin earlier, which was deleted by Pastebin for unknown reason. However now the data is uploaded again by […]
Be careful while providing any information regarding you, your bank or credit cards online because online systems has become more of open books like a site where you there is open information for everyone. You might be thinking what is all stuff about? Well, there are some dreadful stats we have come to know at […]
In a new development during AntiSec’s Jeremy Hammond arrest case, the FBI told the court that it has now charged the group for stealing credit card information equals $700,000. Last December AntiSec, known as a branch of Anonymous hacking group hacked into database of security agency Startfor and leaked 200GB worth of data, with username, passwords, information […]