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...

South Korean banks’ customers become victims of pharming hackers. Financial authorities in South Korea say a group of hackers are responsible for a large-scale hacking scheme. The thieves made off with hundreds of individual’s personal financial transaction informatio...

Both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Energy have become victims of the latest hacktivist attacks. Hundreds of federal agency workers have recently had their personal and account information stolen by hackers. U.S. banking and energy agencies have confirmed an in...

ATMs around the U.S. were used to skim information from over 200 customers. In Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, as many as 200 customers have become victims of an ATM machine hacking scheme. Sauk County officials believe it is the work of 39-year-old Mihai Vasile Bandura. The Rom...

In response to YouTube’s removal of a controversial video, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam announces a truce. The hacktivist group known as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters who were responsible for DDOs attacks against major banks around the U.S. has announced that it is suspending...

A new research study on the effectiveness of passwords may make you reevaluate the strength of your passwords. A study conducted by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research shows that what we once thought of as strong passwords may not be ...

The dangerous Gozi malware effected more than 1 million people before the masterminds were caught.   The criminals behind the design and distribution of the Gozi malware which infected over a million computers around the world are being detained and have been charged wi...

Learn from the Jaguars; be aware of sensitive information of your mobile devices.   Told via Twitter posts, this is the tale of how the Jaguars forgot to wipe their playbook from a player’s personal iPad. That player was traded to another team and took the iPad, c...

NASA fails to encrypt social security numbers and other sensitive information on laptops. NASA’s Office of Inspector General has recently reported the theft of an unencrypted laptop from the car of a NASA headquarters employee. The laptop contained the social security numbe...