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Article | 30/09/2011 Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel
Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and r...
Article | 18/08/2011 Anonymous claims release of BART police officers' data
Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous hacking collective this morning publicly posted the names, home addresses, email addresses and passwords o...
Article | 20/07/2011 'Anonymous' arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says
The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of fourteen individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous hacking group for their alleged pa...
Article | 16/06/2011 LulzSec claims CIA website hack
The CIA's main public facing web site appears to have been taken down by hacking group LulzSec earlier today.
Article | 15/06/2011 Enterprises get new guidance on PCI compliance in virtual environments
Enterprises got some much needed clarification on the implementation of PCI requirements in virtualized environments on Tuesday.
Article | 16/06/2011 LulzSec's Sony hack shows rampant password re-use
An analysis of nearly 40,000 passwords stolen from Sony Pictures by the hyperactive LulzSec crew shows that people persist in re-using passwords, a da...
Article | 3/06/2011 Sony Pictures falls victim to major data breach
LulzSec, a hacking group that recently made news for hacking into PBS, claimed today that it has broken into several Sony Pictures websites and access...
Article | 5/05/2011 IT outsourcing in China and data privacy guidelines
China's data privacy protection has long been considered one of the world's weakest. But the government's proposed data security guidelines may go too...
Article | 29/04/2011 Researchers use disk frag to hide data
Researchers released a paper detailing how to hide data from prying legal eyes by exploiting disk fragmentation on a clustered file system, thereby hi...
Article | 26/04/2011 Security experts can't verify Iran's claims of new worm
Without a sample of the new worm that an Iranian official says attacked the country's computers, it's impossible to verify his claims, a security rese...
Article | 26/04/2011 Security still top concern with cloud, despite Amazon outage
Despite the heightened focus on cloud availability and uptime caused by Amazon's prolonged service outage last week, security will likely remain the b...
Article | 21/04/2011 Texas fires two tech chiefs over breach
The Texas State Comptroller's office has fired its heads of information security and of innovation and technology following an inadvertent data leak t...
Article | 20/04/2011 Oak Ridge National Lab shuts down Internet, email after cyberattack
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, has been forced to shut down its email systems and all Int...
Article | 9/04/2011 Government made me do it, imprisoned TJX hacker claims
Convicted hacker Albert Gonzalez, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the massive hacks at TJX, Heartland and ...
Article | 1/04/2011 SCADA security arms race underway
While the race between industrial control system attackers and defenders didn't start with the Stuxnet worm, it certainly acted as a catalyst to a new...

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