Most major Pakistani banks hacked, customer data stolen
“In a shocking disclosure, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) revealed on Tuesday that customers’ data from almost all major Pakistani banks was stolen in a recent security breach. ‘Data of almost all Pakistani banks has been hacked. According to the reports gathered by FIA, most of the banks have been
Messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts reportedly up for sale
“Hackers are reportedly offering to sell private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts.mMany of the compromised accounts belong to Facebook users in Ukraine and Russia, but some are from the US, the UK, Brazil and other countries, the BBC reported Friday. The hackers claim to have details from 120 million
Most enterprise vulnerabilities remain unpatched a month after discovery
“The majority of vulnerabilities remain unpatched by the enterprise a month after discovery, researchers have found. According to CA Veracode’s latest State of Software Security (SOSS) report, up to 70 percent of bugs remain unpatched four weeks after disclosure, and close to 55 percent are not resolved three months after
Abandoned Websites Haunt Fortune 500 Corporations
“Websites that never go away continue to bring security threats to their owners, says a new report. Old Web applications don’t go away — they linger and spread security vulnerabilities around their organizations. These ‘ghost sites’ are critical assets for criminals and weaknesses for enterprises, according to a new report
Yahoo agrees to pay $50 million to settle data breach lawsuit
“Yahoo must pay $50 million in damages to victims of one of the largest data breaches on record. On Monday, a settlement was filed with the United States District Court in California which laid to rest the two-year-old lawsuit. Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in compensation to victims
Hackers Breach Healthcare.gov, access the data of 75,000 users
“Hackers accessed sensitive personal data of more than 75,000 Healthcare.gov customers after one of its systems was breached, according to a Friday statement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. According to the statement, CMS officials detected ‘anomalous system activity’ in the Federally Facilitated Exchanges system—one that health care
What Spammers Could Do with Your Hacked Facebook Data
Recently leaked data from 15 million Facebook accounts included names, email addresses, and phone numbers, while a further 14 million accounts had their usernames, date of births, gender, devices used, language settings, and possibly their relationship statuses, religion, hometown, current city, work, education, past 10 location checkins, and past 15
No One Can Get Cybersecurity Disclosure Just Right
Facebook’s recent data breach impacting several millions of people “served as the first major test run of disclosure requirements in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Facebook could face more than $1.5 billion in fines under GDPR just for allowing the breach in the first place. But the company
There’s a thriving black market for selfies with pictures of passports
A new report by Comparitech has found that selfies displaying passport information is a new market for counterfeiters, providing a method for obtaining bank accounts and other services under false names while bypassing many security features. “A passport scan is a digital picture of the ID page showing the bearer’s
Pentagon reveals cyber breach of travel records
The Pentagon announced a breach of its DoD travel records, accessed through a compromised commercial vendor, that compromised personal information, including credit card information, of both military members and civilians. The breach impacted up to 30,000 employees and occurred months ago, although it was only just discovered on October 4th.