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Article | 14/04/2011 Hackers gain root access to Wordpress servers
Hackers have compromised several servers that support WordPress and may have obtained source code, according to the founding developer of Automattic, ...
Article | 14/04/2011 Epsilon breach: When should almost public info be private?
A press feeding frenzy followed the somewhat vague April Fools Day announcement by Epsilon Data Management that someone had hacked into its systems an...
Article | 14/04/2011 Security fragmentation needs to end
A new week, a new rash of attacks against security vendors, email marketers and banks. It would be easy to point fingers and laugh at the irony, espec...
Article | 12/04/2011 Epsilon e-mail hack: How you can protect yourself
Most of the time I only hear from my credit card companies when I owe them money or when they want to sell me a new service. That's changed; now I'm b...
Article | 12/04/2011 Epsilon: a watershed for an industry under siege
Last week, consumers in the U.S. were bombarded with e-mail messages warning them of what may be the most widely felt data breach in U.S. history. A c...
Article | 11/04/2011 UK police arrest three men over 'SpyEye' malware
U.K. police arrested three men late last week in connection with using the SpyEye malware program to steal online banking details.
Article | 7/04/2011 Epsilon worries it may lose business after major data breach
The company responsible for one of the most publicized data breaches this year fears it may now lose some business but says that it continues to pump ...
Article | 7/04/2011 Windows servers hacked at The Hartford insurance company
Hackers have broken into The Hartford insurance company and installed password-stealing programs on several of the company's Windows servers.
Article | 2/04/2011 IEEE suffers a data breach
The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers suffered a data breach last year that compromised credit card information of 828 people who reg...
Article | 2/04/2011 Bank customers warned after breach at Epsilon marketing firm
JP Morgan Chase and the Kroger supermarket chain are warning customers that their names and e-mail addresses may have fallen into the wrong hands afte...
Article | 29/03/2011 Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit
Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they're now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with custom...
Article | 28/03/2011 MySQL website falls victim to SQL injection attack
Oracle's MySQL.com customer website was apparently compromised over the weekend by a pair of hackers who publicly posted usernames, and in some cases ...
Article | 26/03/2011 Russian security team to upgrade SCADA exploit tool
A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities r...
Article | 25/03/2011 European Commission hit by serious cyberattack
The European Commission, including the body's diplomatic arm, has been hit by what officials said Thursday was a serious cyberattack.
Article | 22/03/2011 WikiLeaks' founder takes on Indian Prime Minister
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange told an Indian TV channel that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was engaged in a deliberate attempt to misle...