Some members of LinkedIn are suing the company, claiming it broke into their non-LinkedIn email accounts, stole their contact records, and then sent marketing emails to these contacts. LinkedIn denies any wrongdoing. Article Excerpt: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of...
Multiple websites from inside NASA’s Ames Research Center were breached by a Brazilian hacker group. Many of the sites remained unavailable to the public for days. Article Excerpt: Nearly a dozen NASA websites run from the heart of Silicon Valley were hacked on...
Recently, 14,000 employees for the Department of Energy had personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, compromised by a hacker. Article Excerpt: Personal information for roughly 14,000 past and current Energy Department employees was...
The credit card information of 7,000 people seeking healthcare at the Medical University of South Carolina was recently compromised. Patients who paid for services with a credit card either over the phone or online were impacted, though the hospital believes no...
There is now an online service that can produce counterfeit personal documents such as driver’s licenses or passports, which cyber criminals can use to impersonate you online in order to gain access to bank accounts and other sensitive accounts. Article Excerpt: A new...
