The Academy�s note to some 5800 members warning them that electronic balloting could be coming by the next awards season is surprising news. The letter from the Academy�s director of membership Kimberly Roush asked members for a direct email that did not go through an assistant or intermediary. The Academy is chasing an earlier date [...]
The Australian banking system has been rocked by a mystery security breach which caused the immediate cancellation of over 10,000 cards on Friday. The Commonwealth Bank and the St George Bank initiated the alert via SMS to customers notifying them that their cards would be cancelled as part of precautionary measures.
The Commonwealth Bank said in [...]
Honda’s Canadian division has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 283,000 customers, according to its website and published media reports.
The purloined data includes the names, addresses and vehicle identification numbers of customers who made purchases in 2009. The company is warning customers to be wary of scams, which could use the [...]
Managers be warned: A significant threat to the security of your data may be the very people you pay to keep your secrets safe. That�s the message from a new survey that found more than a third of corporate information technology security professionals claim they have the ability to hold their organization�s data hostage.
Of the [...]
Microsoft today downplayed the threat posed by an unpatched vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) that an Italian researchers has shown can be exploited to hijack people’s online identities.
The bug, which has been only discussed and not disclosed in detail, was part of an attack technique described by Rosario Valotta, who dubbed the [...]
Internet users should be extremely cautious before installing upcoming netbook/tablet PC versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox which hide the URL of Web sites that users visit � a technique known as compact Web page navigation.
Surfing the Web without being completely aware � at all times � of which sites you are using is [...]
Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the attacks told Reuters. They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplicates to "SecurID" electronic keys from EMC Corp’s RSA security division, said the person who was [...]
Tupac Shakur is alive! Not. Check off the main news website for the Public Broadcasting System, PBS NewsHour, as the latest victim of a hacking attempt that has interrupted the site�s main activity. Hackers from �LulzSec� were able to break into the site and posted a fake story that said rapper Tupac Shakur was [...]
Skype has been forced to disable a third-party "update" pushed out to users late last week after it sparked fears the popular VoIP service was propagating a worm.
Users took to Skype’s forums after being prompted by the VoIP service to allow an executable file for EasyBits Games Go to run on their machines. Several users [...]
A spokesman for New York Representative Anthony Weiner says a lewd photograph sent from the Democrat’s Twitter account is just "a distraction" perpetrated by a hacker.
Weiner spokesman Dave Arnold told The Associated Press in an email Sunday the Twitter episode was "a distraction" from the congressman’s "important work representing his constituents".
The photo showed a man’s [...]
A computer problem has led to internet banking problems for about 2,000 Lloyds TSB customers, the bank has confirmed.
Many were unable to log on to the internet banking site, with others unable to view all of their account details such as direct debits and standing orders. The bank said the problem came during an upgrade [...]
Like a lot of cell phone users, you may be wondering just what your wireless company knows about you. Can it see what kinds of apps you�re running on your phone and where you go online while you�re out and about? Can it tell what types of phones and tablets are connected to their networks, [...]
The Academy�s note to some 5800 members warning them that electronic balloting could be coming by the next awards season is surprising news. The letter from the Academy�s director of membership Kimberly Roush asked members for a direct email that did not go through an assistant or intermediary. The Academy is chasing an earlier date [...]
The Academy�s note to some 5800 members warning them that electronic balloting could be coming by the next awards season is surprising news. The letter from the Academy�s director of membership Kimberly Roush asked members for a direct email that did not go through an assistant or intermediary. The Academy is chasing an earlier date [...]
The Academy�s note to some 5800 members warning them that electronic balloting could be coming by the next awards season is surprising news. The letter from the Academy�s director of membership Kimberly Roush asked members for a direct email that did not go through an assistant or intermediary. The Academy is chasing an earlier date [...]
5 years has passed (well more like 5 and a 1/2) since our last HITB site makeover aka HITB Reloaded back in 2005 and we’re well overdue for the next iteration aka HITB Revolutions!
In 2005 we migrated the main HITB Portal (www.hackinthebox.org) from Thatware (pretty much one of the very first PHP based content [...]
The security breach that brought the Playstation Network down on April 21st, 2011, which allegedly compromised the credit card details of some U.S. and Non-U.S. PSN users, is exactly what Sony wants to prevent by offering all PSN members free identity theft protection.
While there has been no confirmation by Sony that U.S. cardholders’ information were [...]
An Italian security researcher has demonstrated an exploit in Microsoft�s web browser that could allow remote stealing of digital credentials, or cookies, The Register is reporting.
Rosario Valotta demonstrated his �cookiejacking� proof of concept last week at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam. His hack exposes a flaw in all current versions of [...]
Russian digital forensics toolmaker Elcomsoft said that it’s the first forensics company to have successfully cracked the data security scheme of the iPhone 4. What that means is that digital forensic investigators will be able to circumvent, in many cases, the hardware-based encryption introduced by Apple with iOS 4.
Elcomsoft, however, said that its related tool [...]
The first thing they tell you at Akamai is that the Internet is constantly under attack. At every minute, somebody somewhere in the world is trying to hack into a website, shut it down, or steal valuable information from it.
And because the Cambridge, Mass.-based company hosts as much as 30 percent of the world�s [...]