Security News

Initial 'suspicious activity' was full-scale data theft, it tells local lawmakers Fresh from belatedly admitting that 9.4 million passengers’ personal data was stolen by hackers, Hong Kong airline...

Loads of bonus infosec news for your weekend Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…

Company Says Medicare Supplemental Plan Policyholders Among Those ImpactedBankers Life is notifying more than 566,000 individuals, including Medicare supplemental insurance policyholders, that...

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug...

Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue), global strategy lead at IBM X-Force Red, explains SQL injection attacks and discusses how voter registration database hacks can lead to doubt in the election process.

Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week's headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…

Massive hacker playground can be spun up on the cheap A group of Italian researchers have developed a blueprint for a massive virtualized enterprise network to allow for large-scale security tests...

State investigation finds non-Snowden proof of UK badness - local report GCHQ’s rumoured hacking operation against Belgacom came back into the spotlight yesterday after a local newspaper revealed...

Names, billing addresses, email addresses, card info, CVV numbers in some case... British Airways' horror hack is worse than first thought: the world's favorite airline has added 185,000...

Mark Risher, Google's director of product management for identity and account security, explains what hackers are looking and how Google is ramping up account security.