Nov 28, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency gave customers free rides on its Metro light-rail service all day Saturday, a precaution they took after an apparent hack of the agency’s computer system. Pink “Out of Service” messages shone from the ticket machines...
Nov 26, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
Nov 24, 2016 | Data Breaches
More than 130,000 current and former sailors have fallen victim to a data breach, the Navy announced on Wednesday. According to a news release, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services notified the Navy on Oct. 27 that one of the company’s laptops operated by an...
Nov 21, 2016 | Data Breaches
Michigan State University has experienced a data breach, which it said took place on November 13th. It is believed that ‘only 449’ people are thought to have been compromised, after an unauthorized party gained access to its database (which contains over...
Nov 20, 2016 | Data Breaches
UK mobile company ‘Three’ has become the latest victim of a major data breach, with up-to six million customers reported possibly affected. Data that has been accessed includes names, phone numbers, addresses and birth dates. Three said that fraudsters...
Nov 17, 2016 | Data Breaches
The financial repercussions of a data breach have been highlighted by the $1 million fine handed out to Adobe Systems for a 2013 security incident. Roy Cooper, attorney general of North Carolina, said that businesses and government “must do more” to protect sensitive...
