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  Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

  A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 May, 2013 02:28

  Tags: Criminal, Bank of Muscat, security, data breach, legal, Identity fraud / theft, cybercrime

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  The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked

  Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 May, 2013 01:19

  Tags: security, The Onion, data breach, twitter, Exploits / vulnerabilities, data protection

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  Name.com forces customers to reset passwords following security breach

  Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised.

  By Lucian Constantin | 09 May, 2013 11:55

  Tags: online safety, security, data breach, Access control and authentication, encryption, Name.com, privacy, Linode, sophos

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  Systems manager arrested for hacking former employer's network

  A 41-year-old man was arrested for allegedly disrupting his former employer's network after he was passed over for promotions, leading him to quit his job and take revenge, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

  By Loek Essers | 03 May, 2013 10:24

  Tags: Detection / prevention, intrusion, security, data breach, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Exploits / vulnerabilities, data protection

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  Dutch bill seeks to give law enforcement hacking powers

  The Dutch government today presented a draft bill that aims to give law enforcement the power to hack into computer systems -- including those located in foreign countires -- to do research, gather and copy evidence or block access to certain data.

  By Loek Essers | 02 May, 2013 10:47

  Tags: Simone Halink, legislation, government, data protection, privacy, cybercrime, Ivo Opstelten, Detection / prevention, intrusion, security, data breach, legal, Forensics, encryption

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  How to avoid 5 common storage mishaps

  Think you can guess the No. 1 threat to the security of your stored data? If you said hackers, or even trouble-making insiders, you'd be wrong. While malicious threats are an ongoing concern, it's your well-meaning employees who are more likely to unknowingly expose your company's stored data through, say, a file-sharing network or a misplaced laptop.

  By Mary Brandel | 10 February, 2009 09:12

  Tags: data breach

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  20 amazing, amusing and alarming IT facts

  A new report warns that the cost from lost productivity at work related to the new NFL season could add up to US$10.5 billion. And there we were, thinking the biggest waste of time at work came from fielding an endless stream of IT industry reports?

  By Network World staff | 16 September, 2008 09:53

  Tags: corporate issues, SaaS, security, data breach, government legislation, environment, broadband

Whitepapers about data breach

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  2012 Data Breach Investigations Report

  A study conducted by Verizon RISK Team with cooperation from the Australian Federal Police, Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, Irish Reporting & Information Security Service, Police Central e-Crime Unit and United States Secret Service. This year our DBIR includes more incidents, derived from more contributors, and represents a broader and more diverse geographical scope. The number of compromised records across these incidents skyrocketed back up to 174 million after reaching an all-time low (or high, depending on your point of view) in last year’s report of four million. In fact, 2011 boasts the second-highest data loss total since we started keeping track in 2004. Read this report.