A group of researchers have discovered a simple way to reveal the identity of a user based on his interactions with social networks. The ‘deanonymization’ attack uses social network groups as well as some traditional browser history-stealing tactics to narrow down and find the user behind the browser.
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The latest company to fall victim to a plundering of their account by the hands of cyber criminals is Cynxsure, an IT consultancy firm based in New Hampshire.
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Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted.
The giant California-based chip maker was rumored to have been among some 34 companies that were targeted, but said on Tuesday there was no evidence to tie its hack to the attack on Google and others.
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Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps — in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump — in a recent wave of attacks that demonstrate a more sophisticated, insidious method of stealing money from unsuspecting victims filling up their gas tanks.
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Users of Google’s Blogger, a free blog publishing tool, are the targets of the latest phishing email campaign. Check out the article – [Help Net Security]
The Federal Trade Commission has notified almost 100 organizations that personal information, including sensitive data about customers and/or employees, has been shared from the organizations’ computer networks and is available on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks to any users of those networks, who could use it to commit identity theft or fraud.
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The Information Law Group has been following various Federal data security bills as they wind their way through the House and Senate. In December 2009, the Information Law Group commented on the passage of the Data Accountability and Trust Act (“DATA”) by the House.
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