An unidentified admin for Tennessee-based E Singles Inc. denied that its website, MilitarySingles.com, was breached, despite claims to the contrary.
A hacker has gained access to the databases of Skeptical Science, a site that focuses its efforts on the issue of global warming and uploaded its entire user database to a Russian website.
It’s uncertain at this time if the hacker managed to decrypt the passwords attached to the user accounts, but as a precaution customers are being advised to change them.
Hackers allegedly broke into the Twitter account of singer Justin Bieber, sending a less-than-flattering message to his 19 million fans.
"19 million my ass. #biebermyballs," read the message, with computer security firm Sophos saying the tweet was quickly deleted.
While the attack was certainly more embarrasing than anything else, Sophos has pointed out that had the attackers offered a malware laden link baiting 19 million followers with free concert tickets for example, this could have been a very different story indeed.
Even the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft isn't immune to identity theft, it seems.
A simple scheme to defraud Paul Allen, one of the richest men in the world, has landed an AWOL soldier in federal custody, authorities said this week. The case raises basic questions about how safe anyone's information can really be.
A Groupon customer has reported an apparent security hole to CNet in which the credit card information of another customer was exposed.
When Stephen Pipino logged into the Web site to make a purchase, he saw someone else's credit card information and address displayed in his account, along with his own credit card data. The information belonged to someone with his same first and last name. Pipino verified that the address matched a business address for the other Pipino and has contacted him to let him know about the problem.
The assault on personal privacy has ramped up significantly in the past few years. From warrantless GPS tracking to ISP packet inspection, it seems that everyone wants to get in on the booming business of clandestine snooping -- even blatant prying, if you consider reports of employers demanding Facebook passwords prior to making hiring decisions.
Hackers have broken into the database for a military dating website and stolen passwords, e-mail addresses, and other information from nearly 171,000 accounts, according to a posting on Pastebin this weekend.
The leaked data includes in email addresses from us.army.mil, navy.mil and microsoft.com domains, but what is interesting to note is that the group is using the name "LulzSec" and "LulzSec Reborn". Representatives from ESingles, the operator of the site, did not respond to emails seeking comment.
Senators Charles E Schumer and Richard Blumenthal confirmed yesterday that they have written to the US Justice Department and the equal employment opportunity commission, asking them to investigate prospective employers who request employees turnover Facebookl passwords during the interview process.
A Japanese bank and National police agency have deployed voice recognition technology capable of catching up phishing scams almost every time.
In development since 2009, the technology by Fujitsu and Nagoya University is claimed to be a world's first, with researchers saying it is capable of analysing phone conversations to “detect situations in which one party might 'over trust' the other party”.
Kaspersky Lab researchers have found a criminal gang playing cat and mouse with Google by releasing several variations of its malware laden Chrome extensions, hosting them on the official Google Web store.
The malware pretends to be a Flash Player installer but instead downloads a trojan which writes messages a victim's Facebook profile and automatically likes certain pages. The researchers say that variations of the attacks have been found, however, it has so far largely been confined to Brazil and other Portuguese speaking nations.
