Users are advised to change their usernames from the default and have strong passwords. WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg issued a warning Friday about hackers infiltrating accounts with the username set to the default “admin.” Several large-scale, well organized brute force...

Cisco denies all accusations of theft brought forth by Multiven CEO Alfred-Adekeye. Multiven and Cisco are at it again. This time Cisco is being accused of what competitor Multiven is calling a “severely harmful” breach of security involving the theft of thousands of propri...

Case settlement includes fine as well as privacy education. A case brought against Google by 38 states claimed the company violated the privacy of unsuspecting people while collecting data for its Street View mapping project. The company was accused of gathering private pass...

Infected email messages lead to a major breach in bank network security. A series of cyber-attacks on the Reserve Bank of Australia have successfully hacked the bank’s networks and stolen sensitive internal information. The perpetrator appears to be a malware virus develope...

Bank of America confirms compromise of third-party server is to blame. Responsibility for a breach in Bank of America’s data security is being claimed by a hacktivist group called Par:AnoIA which is part of the Anonymous Intelligence Agency. The group’s attack on Bank of Am...

IT Policies and Procedures may help alleviate employee theft of intellectual property. For most of us, the definition of theft is very black and white. For some employees, the line may turn gray right before they depart from the company. CERT researchers found that the chan...

Failure to install their security software on company computers leaves Bit9 a victim of hackers. News of a hacker attack on IT security provider Bit9 was released by Krebs on Security earlier this month and was apparently caused by an oversight which resulted in a failure t...

Holes in cross-channel, cross-account monitoring by banking institutes may be to blame. A massive criminal scheme involving 13 individuals and crossing multiple state and international boarders has been uncovered by the Department of Justice. The criminals built an enterpri...