U.S. states probing security breach at Experian unit: A number of U.S. states are jointly investigating a data breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed the social security numbers of some 200 million people to potential criminal activity. A Vietnamese man last month confessed in U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to orchestrating […]

Xbox password flaw exposed by five-year-old boy: A five-year-old boy who worked out a security vulnerability on Microsoft’s Xbox Live service has been officially thanked by the company. Kristoffer Von Hassel, from San Diego, figured out how to log in to his dad’s account without the right password. Microsoft has fixed the flaw, and added […]

License to Hack? DOJ Seeks Expanded Authority to Use Hacking Techniques: As part of its increased focus on combating cybercrime, the U.S. Department of Justice is pushing to loosen requirements for obtaining search warrants in order to allow them greater freedom to hack into the computers of criminal suspects.  Late last year, DOJ submitted a […]

WinRAR File Extension Spoofing vulnerability allows Hackers to Hide Malware: Imagine, You Open a Winrar archive of MP3 files, but what if it will install a malware into your system when you play anyone of them. WinRAR, a widely used file archiver and data compression utility helps hackers to distribute malicious code. Israeli security researcher Danor Cohen […]

Measuring Healthcare InfoSec Competency: “In healthcare, there are a lot of places we have very junior staff,” Murphy says in an interview with Information Security Media Group. “We have people that have maybe grown up with the organization and have different roles within the organization, but now have an almost brand new responsibility in handling […]

Mad Mimi Fights Back Against DDoS Attack: On Sunday March 30, Mad Mimi was hit with a DDoS attack by criminals attempting to extort money from us. This follows a trend of tech companies being targeted that includes Basecamp and Meetup. A DDoS attack targets our network, essentially severing the link between our servers and […]

Microsoft Is About To Leave One-Third Of All Computers Vulnerable To Hacking: Hundreds of millions of computers running everything from ATMs to the power grid will be vulnerable to hacking next month when Microsoft stops supporting its old Windows XP operating system. Hackers have been holding onto flaws in Windows XP and waiting to exploit […]

Consumers Save $2.5 Billion A Year If A ‘Kill Switch’ Stops Phone Thefts, Study Finds: Consumers could save an estimated $2.5 billion each year if proposed “kill switch” technology significantly reduced smartphone thefts nationwide, according to a new study. The analysis by William Duckworth, a statistics professor at Creighton University, estimates that consumers spend about […]

RSA adopted Two NSA Backdoored Encryption Tools: Researchers from Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois have claimed that the RSA adopted one more NSA recommended tool called Extended Random extension for secure websites, which actually helps NSA to crack a version of the Dual Elliptic Curve software tens of thousands of times faster, Reuters reported. […]

Hackers Claim Data Theft on 800 Million Cards: Cybersecurity officials are still sizing up how much truth, if any, there is in a hacker group’s claim that it stole data on hundreds of millions of U.S. card accounts. The group, calling itself Anonymous Ukraine, said last week that it has seized information related to 800 […]