The Cost of Data Breach on Linkedin LinkedIn reports that it lost up to $4 million due to one of the biggest data breaches in 2012. LinkedIn is understood to have spent between $500k and $1 million on computer forensic investigation work after a number of passwords of the 175 million LinkedIn member’s accounts data […]
Suspected Mariposa Botnet Mastermind goes on Trial
The suspected mastermind of the Mariposa botnet that compromised millions of computers worldwide went on trial in Slovenia in 2012. The 26 year old, MatjaÅ Åkorjanc is believed to have been a hacker known as Iserdo who was arrested in Maibor in 2010 following an International investigation by the FBI and Slovenian and Spanish Police. […]
Security Loophole Allows Data To Be Removed from a Computer in Standby Mode
Greek researchers have found a security loophole within the way that computer memory functions and could be used to retrieve password and other data from it even when it is in standby mode. The researchers warn that the security loophole could also be used by criminals to obtain personal information, however it could also be […]
GCHQ to Provide Advice to Businesses to Fight Cyber Attacks
GCHQ will provide advise to Britain’s senior business leaders on how best to counter the threat of cyber attacks within a program that is the first pairing of Government intelligence services working in such a way directly with the private sector. The Cyber Security for Business Forum The Cyber Security for Business forum follows the […]
The Facebook Bug that Allowed Spammers to Impersonate Users
Spear-Phishing Campaign Identified on Facebook A “spear-phishing” campaign has been identified by Facebook that used compromised email accounts to scrape information from Friends Lists on the site. Affected Facebook users have reported receiving targeted spam messages that had been sent to personal email addresses registered to their Facebook account. The “spear-phishing” emails posed as messages […]
