Cybercriminals have already taken advantage of the latest security hole in Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Fed confirms but downplays Anonymous Super Bowl banker hack
Sod that, Beyoncé is a member of the ILLUMINATI
The US Federal Reserve has admitted that its systems were hacked during Sunday’s Super Bowl, a breach that led to the leaking of personal data on hundreds of US banking executives.…
Federal Reserve confirms its Web site was hacked
Days after Anonymous claimed to have stolen and published private information from more than 4,000 bank executives, the Fed says its system was attacked.
Judge confirms Google’s miserly $22.5m Safari privacy FTC payout
Don’t be evil. Starting in 2014
A US judge has accepted Google’s offer of just $ 22.5m to settle with the FTC over Safari cookies, despite pressure from a consumer rights group to stiffen the penalty.…
Adobe shuts down Connect user forum, confirms passwords raided
Connect itself untouched – unless you used the same login
Adobe has admitted that its Connectusers.com forum database was compromised, exposing password information about users of its conferencing technology in the process.…
Swedish ISP confirms police raid targeted illegal file-sharing
After authorities raided Web host PRQ and seized three of its servers earlier this week, the owner now says police were after sites that dealt in piracy and copyright infringement.
Originally posted at News – Internet & Media
White House confirms ‘spearphishing’ intrusion
Official confirms report by veteran Pentagon reporter Bill Gertz saying hackers linked to China’s government “broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks.”
Dropbox confirms it was hacked, offers users help
After a two-week investigation, the online file storage service confirms that usernames and passwords were stolen from third party Web sites and then used to access Dropbox accounts.
E-ballot device for presidential vote has bugs, report confirms
An optical scanner to be used for the presidential election this year is prone to recording the wrong vote or none at all, according to a government report. But the manufacturer says problems are fixed.
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex
Blue Coat confirms Syria used its Web filtering devices
Following reports, Blue Coat says Syria was indeed censoring the Web with its filtering devices. But the company adds that it doesn’t know how the gadgets ended up in Syria despite a trade embargo.
Originally posted at InSecurity Complex