In Chicago, 2000 public school students’ personal information was posted on a city website. The data was gathered during free vision exams and was inadvertently made public. Only a handful of people viewed the information before it was removed, however. Article...
A recent analysis of data breaches within California’s government shows that since 2007, state agencies and departments have been compromised over 7300 times. Article Excerpt: An analysis of data collected from California’s Department of Technology shows there have...
Over 300 people attending conferences at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center have had unauthorized charges made to their credit cards. It has been reported that hackers bought gift cards with the stolen credit card data and then resold the gift cards for...
The Washington Post has been hacked again. Employee’s user names and encrypted passwords were accessed, though it doesn’t appear that subscriber information was affected. Article Excerpt: For the second time in recent months, The Washington Post has experienced a...
The Target hack, which became public knowledge on Wednesday, looks to be one of the biggest retail data breaches up to this point. Over 40 million customers have potentially been impacted, and it appears that cyber criminals are already using some of the stolen...
Google blacklists about 10,000 web sites daily for potentially being infected with malware or for potentially being part of a phishing scam. Article Excerpt: Small businesses are reeling from an increase in cybercrime, but a hacked website can have even greater...