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...
A recent survey of senior IT security professionals revealed that an astonishing 74% were not sure that their company’s network had been breach free from a cyber attack sponsored by a foreign country. Article Excerpt: Businesses are losing the battle against...
An IT consultant who is also a commercial pilot recently unveiled an app he developed for use with a smart phone that can hijack flight simulation software. He argues this kind of app could be used to hijack a real plane. The Federal Aviation Administration...
Gone are the days when one had to be a computer genius to commit a cyber crime. Now there are programs that can assist non-tech savvy criminals. Article Excerpt: Combating cybercrime will become an uphill struggle, with the tools needed to commit technological crimes...
