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Michaels arts and crafts store suspects cyber crime
Michaels, the country’s largest arts and crafts chain, suspects it might be victim to a cyber crime. The store announced last week that some customers’ credit and bank cards had “possible fraudulent activity.” The Secret Service is investigating. Article Excerpt:...
Google offers $2.7 million to anyone able to hack Chrome OS
Google is offering prizes totaling $2.7 million for a hacking contest it will sponsor in March at a Canadian security conference, for any entrants that can hack into Google’s operating system, Chrome OS. Article Excerpt: Google yesterday said it would again host its...
Security breach at Coca-Cola could make many employees victims
Coca-Cola notified about 74,000 current and former employees, as well as “external third parties,” that their personal information stored on corporate laptops may have been breached after the laptops were stolen. Article Excerpt: Coca-Cola said Friday personal...
Target breached in huge cyber attack
The buzz in the tech world and news publications over the past month has been the massive breach of retail giant Target. Originally thought to have affected 40 million customers, Target recently reported that number is as high as 110 million, according to USA Today....
Chicago schools CPS health data was accidentally posted online
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...
California cyber breaches are costing state millions
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...
Credit card breach at the Boston Convention Center affects hundreds
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...
Attackers breach The Washington Post servers and seize passwords
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
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 thousands of sites daily for malware infection
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...
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