Stories by: Jaikumar Vijayan

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Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel 30/09/2011 04:08:00

Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and retired U.S. military personnel may have been compromised after backup tapes containing the data went missing recently.
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Argonne researchers 'hack' Diebold e-voting system 29/09/2011 02:04:00

Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally votes in the 2012 elections can be easily hacked using inexpensive, widely-available electronic components.
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Vending machine company announces major data breach 13/09/2011 07:53:00

Vacationland Vendors, a company that supplies vending machines and games to entertainment venues, has disclosed a data breach affecting about 40,000 people who visited waterpark resorts in Wisconsin and Tennessee between December 2008 and May 2011.
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DHS warns of planned Anonymous attacks 03/09/2011 02:48:00

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hacking collective Anonymous over the next few months.
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New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds 25/08/2011 21:17:00

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows.
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Yale warns 43,000 about 10-month-long data breach 23/08/2011 07:06:00

Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via Google search for about 10 months.
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Anonymous claims release of BART police officers' data 18/08/2011 09:34:00

Hackers claiming to belong to the Anonymous hacking collective this morning publicly posted the names, home addresses, email addresses and passwords of 102 police officers belonging to San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) agency.
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Take cyberthreats seriously, says counter-terrorism expert 04/08/2011 06:17:00

LAS VEGAS --Warnings about emerging cyberthreats shouldn't be treated with the same skepticism that many government officials showed toward the alarms sounded prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, warned a leading counter-terrorism at the BlackHat security conference here Wednesday.
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Facebook moves 30-petabyte Hadoop cluster to new data center 30/07/2011 05:42:00

As the world's largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year.
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Director of US-CERT quits abruptly 26/07/2011 07:56:00

Randy Vickers, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), has resigned from his position without any official explanation for the abrupt move.
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'Anonymous' arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says 20/07/2011 10:09:00

The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of fourteen individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous hacking group for their alleged participation in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against PayPal last year.