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Fortnum & Mason: 23,000 Affected by Data Hack

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Luxury retailer Fortnum & Mason has become the latest big brand to be involved in a significant data breach after the company admitted the details of around 23,000 competition and survey participants had been compromised.

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Jul 05, 2018

Adidas US Website Hit by Data Breach

Adidas is the latest retailer to get hit with a data breach: the athletic apparel firm said it's alerting some customers that their data may have been exposed due to a newly discovered hack of its US website.

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Jun 30, 2018

The 6 Worst Insider Attacks of 2018 – So Far

If recent statistics are any indication, enterprise security teams might be greatly underestimating the risk that insider threats pose to their organizations.

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Jun 30, 2018

Ticketmaster Breach Discovered in April, Says Bank

Question marks have been raised over Ticketmaster’s internal security and incident response processes after a bank revealed that it alerted the ticketing giant to a recently discovered breach in April.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 29, 2018

Hundreds of Hotels Hit in FastBooking Breach

FastBooking, a Paris-based provider of hotel-booking software, is alerting client hotels to a data breach in which an attacker lifted personal information and credit card data from guests of hundreds of properties.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 28, 2018

China Escalates Hacks Against the US as Trade Tensions Rise

In 2015, the United States and China agreed to a digital truce that banned hacking private companies to steal trade secrets. And though the agreement has been touted as a success, it hasn't stopped Chinese state-sponsored hackers from pushing the envelope of acceptable behavior.

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Jun 24, 2018

Hackers Steal $31m+ From South Korean Crypto-Exchange

South Korean exchange Bithumb has been targeted by hackers for the second time in a year, this time losing over $31m in cryptocurrency.

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Jun 22, 2018

'Hidden Tunnels' Help Hackers Launch Financial Services Attacks

The security tools and strategies financial services organizations use to protect their data could be leveraged by cybercriminals who sneak in undetected via "hidden tunnels" to conceal their theft, according to a new report published by Vectra.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 21, 2018

Most Websites and Web Apps No Match for Attack Barrage

No matter how large or small, websites and web applications are under a constant barrage of attacks. Two new studies out today put a finer point on the numbers, showing just how frequently attacks hit the average website and how this constant pressure is yielding a huge number of compromised websites and web apps.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2018

Dixons Carphone Breach Hits 5.9 Million Cards

Millions of Dixons Carphone customers have had their financial and personal data illegally accessed after a major breach at the UK company.

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Jun 17, 2018

Bank of Chile Suffers $10m Loss

Banco de Chile publicly disclosed on 28 May that it had detected a virus, presumably from international networks, that affected thousands of its workstations. Now the bank has learned that the cyber-attack was malware and resulted in attackers transferring approximately $10m via the bank's SWIFT international money transfer systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 16, 2018

23,000 Compromised in HealthEquity Data Breach

Sometimes all it takes is one employee to spark a cybersecurity wildfire, as HealthEquity learned this week. The company, which handles more than 3.4 million health savings accounts, suffered a data breach when an unauthorized person accessed an employee's email account.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 15, 2018

Trial of two men accused of $20m hacked press release fraud begins

We didn’t know the information that made us rich was stolen from PR agencies! That appears to be the defence proffered by two defendants in the hacked press release trial.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2018

Serious Security: How three minor bugs make one major exploit

More insecure webcams! Inattention to IoT security! Who would have thought?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2018

UK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breach

Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty for violations of the Data Protection Act 1998.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2018

FBI Slaps New Charges Against Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry

Any hopes that Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher credited with stopping WannaCry, might have harbored about a quick resolution of a US malware case against him were dashed this week with the FBI slapping four new charges against him.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 10, 2018

Chinese hackers stole undersea warfare data from US Navy contractor

Hackers associated with the Chinese government have broken into a US Navy contractor's systems and stolen data about undersea warfare. According to The Washington Post, these include secret plans to create a new anti-ship missile usable on US submarines by 2020.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2018

How NATO Defends Against the Dark Side of the Web

"Oops, your files have been encrypted!" This was the chilling message that greeted hundreds of thousands of computer users last summer.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2018

Bug Bounty Payouts Up 73% Per Vulnerability: Bugcrowd

The past year was a big one for bug bounties, with more programs offering more money to more researchers. Bug bounty programs grew 40% year-over-year, the average payout per vulnerability rose 73% to reach $781, and the number of Bugcrowd researchers grew by 71%.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2018

#Infosec18: Nation State Hacking is Biggest Change in Cyber-Threat Landscape

The former director general of GCHQ Robert Hannigan took to the keynote stage at Infosecurity Europe 2018 to discuss the evolving cyber-threat landscape, describing how – whilst changes in sophistication of lone actors and cyber-criminals are increasing the challenges of keeping data secure – it is the rise of nation state attacks that is “possibly the biggest change in the last couple of years.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 07, 2018

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