Toshiba admits to hack, customer data loss

Toshiba admits to hack, customer data loss


Toshiba admits to hack, customer data loss

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Toshiba has confirmed the claims of a hacker that managed to compromise one of its US sites and steal and publish part of a user database on pastebin.com. While the hacker claimed that the hacked...

NetSecL Linux 3.2 released

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:28 AM PDT

NetSecL is a hardened, live and installable operating system based on OpenSuse suitable for desktop/server and penetration testing. Once installed you can fully enjoy the features of GrSecurity har...

Facebook scammers use Tumblr sites to evade detection

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:27 AM PDT

Facebook users are targeted once again by survey scammers, and this time the lure is a video of a woman exposing herself on live television: There are two versions of the scam. In one, when the u...

Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for botnet information

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Microsoft decided to extend their efforts to establish the identity of those responsible for controlling the Rustock botnet by issuing a $250,000 reward for new information that results in the identif...

Fake financial statements and postal documents lead to fake AV

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:46 AM PDT

Fake emails purportedly coming from financial institutions and the post are currently hitting inboxes and are carrying a malicious .exe file disguised as a Word document. Taking advantage of the us...

EU data breach notification law under advisement

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:41 AM PDT

The recent onslaught of cyber attacks against a variety of companies big and small and the consequent compromises of user information gathered by them has led the European Commission to think about re...

An anonymous social network in the making?

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:34 AM PDT

Spurred by blocked accounts of Anonymous members and activists on various popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and (recently) Google+, a group apparently loosely affiliated with Anonymou...

Vulnerable firmware could destabilize Internet-enabled technologies

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 03:43 AM PDT

Kill switches and backdoors inserted at the point of manufacture could act as a conduit for organized criminals or foreign states to access internet-enabled devices, according to Invictis. Specific...

Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 released

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 11:54 PM PDT

NetWrix released Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 which automates auditing of who changed what, when and where in Active Directory, Group Policy and MS Exchange, for security and compliance purpos...

Week in review: Booz Allen Hamilton breach, Google+ related scams and malware ecosystems

Posted: 17 Jul 2011 11:50 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: "Casey Anthony confession video" scam spreads The verdict in the high-profile Casey Anthony case has ultimately disa...

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