Things keep getting worse on the cyber front.
From the US government to Ashley Madison, no company, organization, or person is safe from cyber attacks.
“We have a pandemic on our hands. This is in the news every single day,” Caleb Barlow, vice president of IBM Security told Tech Insider. “And what we have to realize is this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
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Police in Israel arrested three Israeli citizens allegedly tied to computer hacks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial institutions after a federal US agency charged them with a massive scheme aimed at pumping up stocks and defrauding investors, officials said Tuesday.
Nine major cyber attacks targeting the personal data of millions of Americans were carried out against federal and private computer networks in the past year, according to an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security.
Until the IRS discovered this latest data leak, its website provided a service called “Get Transcript.” It’s an easy way to download several years of tax forms for tasks like applying for a mortgage, or college financial aid.
Criminals are plundering cash vouchers from shoppers’ Tesco reward points in Cambridge as well as Costa Coffee cards, triggering a warning from fraud busters.
Costa Coffee is warning customers it may have suffered a security breach and is going to implement a “new format” for users’ passwords.
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They’ve been saving up diligently since 2013. Combined with their summertime lump pay, they’d have just enough to start shopping for their first home together. Instead, when their lease is up this month, they’ll be moving in with his mom.
(CNN) — British law enforcement officers have arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of hacking the U.S. Department of Defense and swiping data from a satellite-based system used by the military to communicate with people worldwide, UK authorities said Friday.
This arrest was one of 56 made this week in 20 separate operations conducted by regional organized crime units, Metropolitan Police officers and others. The others caught range from a family of suspected fraudsters and a 16-year-old believed to be behind hundreds of cyberattacks, according to Britain’s National Crime Agency.
Yet the arrest that the agency highlighted most was the one that targeted the world’s most powerful last June 15.
The United States is offering a $3million reward for information on a Russian hacker charged with bank conspiracy and fraud. Russian citizen Evgeniy Bogachev is charged with running computer attacks that diverted more than one hundred million dollars. He was indicted in Pittsburgh last year on serious charges of bank fraud and conspiracy. The FBI has released pictures of Evgeniy Bogachev; he is charged in US with running a computer attack network called Game over Zeus which stole more than $100 million from online bank accounts. Unconfirmed reports about whereabouts of Evgeniy Bogachev had surfaced earlier.