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Burgerville Credit Card Theft Report Following Data Breach Alert

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Burgerville has revealed a data breach impacting the chain which may have led to the theft of detailed credit card information belonging to customers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2018

Ransom Demands Target Instagram Influencers After Phishing Attacks

Hackers are taking over high-profile Instagram users’ accounts and holding them to ransom, it was revealed this week. At least four influencers have lost control of their accounts and received demands to send bitcoin for their return, but in some cases the attackers retained control or deleted the accounts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2018

Tesco Bank £16.4 Million Penalty: 2016 Cyber Heist Findings

Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4m by the UK’s financial regulator for deficiencies which allowed hackers to steal millions from its customers in 2016.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 01, 2018

SHEIN: Major Security Breach Exposes Customer Passwords and Emails

Women’s fashion retailer SHEIN has suffered a major security breach that has exposed the personal information and passwords of over six million customers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2018

Understanding the Sony Hacker Indictment: IT Security Lessons from APT37

In August 2018, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed the indictment of a North Korean spy, Park Jin Hyok, whom they claim was behind the hack against Sony and the creation and distribution of the WannaCry ransomware. The 170-plus-page document was written by Nathan Shields of the FBI’s LA office and shows the careful sequence of forensic analysis they used to figure out how various attacks were conducted.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2018

Romanian Woman Pleads Guilty To Major CCTV Ransom Over Fraud Charges

A Romanian woman has pleaded guilty to charges relating to a major ransomware operation which took out over two-thirds of the CCTV cameras in Washington DC ahead of President Trump’s inauguration.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2018

SingHealth Investigation: Severe Cybersecurity Flaws Exposed

Investigation into Singapore's most severe cybersecurity breach has uncovered several poor security practices, including the use of weak administrative passwords and unpatched workstations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2018

State Department Employee Data Alert: No Classified Info Breach

As detailed by the Politico report confirmed by US officials, the employees affected by the e-mail system hack were notified, but the alert sent also discloses the fact that the e-mail system containing classified information was not breached.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2018

Andrei Tyurin Extradition: JP Morgan Data Breach Charges Unveiled

Georgian officials have extradited Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin to the United States, where he will face charges related to a wide-ranging hacking campaign that targeted the US financial sector and included the 2014 breach of JP Morgan Chase.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 11, 2018

Equifax Data Breach Analysis: Government Accountability Office Report

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a report to detail how the Equifax hack went down and how the credit reporting company answered during and after the incident.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 10, 2018

North Korea Hacks Expose Weaknesses in Email Security and Risks

The North Korean group accused of some of the biggest cyber crimes ever conducted may have harnessed some highly sophisticated technologies, but their ability to break into computer networks worldwide often relied on nothing more than a bogus email.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2018

Ken Schuchman Indicted: Satori Botnet Exploiting Huawei Router Bug

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 03, 2018

George Garofano: 8 Months for iCloud Phishing Crime and Celebrity Breach

What does it cost to gain unauthorized access to roughly 240 Apple iCloud accounts? For George Garofano, 26, the price is eight months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and 60 hours of community service.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 30, 2018

Cosmos Bank Cyberattack: $13.5 Million Lost to Malware Exploit

Earlier this month, reports surfaced which suggested that Cosmos Bank, India's oldest at 112 years old, had become the victim of a cyberattack which left the institution millions out of pocket.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 27, 2018

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen Data Breach: Payment Info Compromised

Another day, another restaurant chain data breach – this time, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen. The Darden Restaurants-owned food chain said it was alerted this month that its network had been hacked and customer payment card data exposed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 26, 2018

T-Mobile: 2023:0048-1 Moderate Alert: Exposure of Customer Data

T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of "some" personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 24, 2018

Superdrug Incident: Data Breach Affects 20,000 Customer Accounts

Superdrug has warned customers of a security incident which may have resulted in the exposure of personal data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 22, 2018

Augusta University Health Data Breach Affects 417,000 Patients

A leading US healthcare organization (HCO) has admitted that a phishing attack last September may have led to the compromise of highly sensitive data on nearly half a million patients.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2018

UK: 47 Hacking Charges Last Year and Declining Prosecution Rates

Cyberattacks are now a daily occurrence and hardly a week goes by when we don't hear of a major data breach -- but despite rising numbers of hacking events, prosecutions rates are falling in the United Kingdom.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 20, 2018

Teen Hacker Breaches Apple Network, Stealing Customer Data

An Australian teenager hacked into Apple's enterprise computer network, making off with 90 gigabytes of data before being discovered. He also accessed an undisclosed number of customer accounts during his year-long intrusion.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2018

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