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Phishing gang jailed for plundering woman's £1 million life savings
A heartless phishing gang that stole and frittered a British woman?s entire £1 million ($1.6 million) life savings on items including ?gold and cheeseburgers? have been handed heavy sentences by a judge at London?s Southwark Crown Court.
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25 must-have technologies for SMBs
Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I?ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were running a business.
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Anonymous posts personal data of 4,000 bankers online
Personal information on some 4,000 people in the banking industry, including bank officers, was posted online Sunday by the hacker collective Anonymous.
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Voice 'fingerprints' could plug call-centre security leaks
You've heard such stories. Mat Honan, a reporter for Wired magazine had almost his entire digital life erased when a fraudster used social media account information to trick Apple and Google into allowing him access to Honan's account information.
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Anonymous spokesman indicted for threats, stolen credit cards
A federal grand jury in Texas has indicted Barrett Brown, a spokesman for the hacker collective known as Anonymous and co-author of a book-in-progress about the group, in connection with a massive data breach of Stratfor Global Intelligence, a geopolitical risk analysis organisation.
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NASA rushes to encrypt laptops after major security breach
NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a "large" number of people was recently stolen.
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3.6 million South Carolina social security numbers breached by international hacker
Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed after a server at the state's Department of Revenue was breached by an international hacker, state officials said Friday.
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Cyberthieves steal £249,000 from US city bank account
Government officials in Burlington, Washington have notified hundreds of employees and residents that their bank account information was compromised last week when hackers broke into city systems and stole more than $400,000 from a city account at Bank of America.
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Hackers steal thousands of student records from computers at Florida college
An information breach at a Florida college has compromised information of about 279,000 students and employees, the Florida Department of Education said on Wednesday.
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FBI denies it was source of leaked Apple device ID data
The FBI has denied that the one million unique device identifiers for Apple devices (UDIDs) posted publicly by hacker group AntiSec earlier this week came from its computers.
