Neowin News Feed for: Cyber attack

Facebook was the victim of a Java exploit, computers were compromised

John Callaham — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:05:31 +0000

Facebook has admitted today that a number of its employees had their laptops infected with malware due to a "zero day" Java exploit. Facebook says the company's user data was not affected. Read more...

Tumblr pages being hacked with racist messages

John Callaham — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:35:31 +0000

The hacker group known as GNAA has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that has infected thousands of Tumblr sites with racist messages. Tumblr is still working to fix the issue. Read more...

Clicking an email link gave hackers access to South Carolina's tax records

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:33:18 +0000

A South Carolina employee who clicked on a link in an email was the first step for hackers to later obtain millions of Social Security numbers and bank accounts from the state's servers. Read more...

3.6 million Social Security numbers exposed by cyber attack

John Callaham — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:38:50 +0100

The South Carolina Department of Revenue has announced that a cyber attack has exposed over 3.6 million of the state's Social Security numbers, along with 387,000 credit and debit card numbers. Read more...

Infographic: You are not safe online

Steven Parker — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:50:11 +0100

Dramatic title is dramatic; but is it time for a little scaremongering? Time to remind casual users that you can do more to protect your online presence? We think we can never remind you enough of it. Read more...

Dropbox rolls out new security features, denies server breach

Steven Parker — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:30:51 +0100

When Dropbox customers starting receiving Spam on email addresses used only for that service, it seemed likely that they too had fallen victim to a server breach, as it turns out, nope! Read more...

8 million passwords leaked from Gamigo gaming service

John Callaham — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:41:15 +0100

Eight million passwords and email addresses from the Gamigo online gaming service founded their way to a public website earlier in July, after the company announced their servers had been hacked. Read more...

Dropbox suffers outage amid reports of email address leaks

Steven Parker — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:35:21 +0100

Dropbox is the latest target for hackers. As well as an (unrelated) outage in some countries of Europe, users also suffered a large scale spam attack, just to add insult to injury Read more...

League of Legends European accounts hacked

John Callaham — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:23:40 +0100

The European division of Riot Games' League of Legends has admitted that one or more hackers have gained access to their personal player database. No financial information was accessed. Read more...

LinkedIn offers another update on password breach

John Callaham — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:47:50 +0100

The official LinkedIn blog made a rare weekend post for an update on how it the company is dealing with its recent security breach that caused over 6 million passwords to be leaked to the Internet. Read more...

eHarmony confirms breach around 1.5M passwords stolen

Steven Parker — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:58:55 +0100

eHarmony is the latest website to fall victim to data theft, this time around 1.5 million passwords were stolen, or according to the online dating website: "a small fraction of our user base". Read more...

Hacked LinkedIn accounts already being used by criminals

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:41:45 +0100

Some LinkedIn accounts that were lifted from the company's servers in a cyber attack are already being used by criminals to send emails that link to scam websites. Read more...

Millions of LinkedIn passwords have been stolen

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:23:49 +0100

A new report claims that a poster on a Russian message board has released over 6.4 million hashed passwords from LinkedIn members, with over 300,000 of the weaker passwords already cracked. Read more...

Cryptic Studios confirms cyber attack back in 2010

John Callaham — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:08:32 +0100

Cryptic Studios has confirmed that a cyber attack occurred back in 2010 on the game developers' online servers and that personal information might have been disclosed. Read more...

Iranian oil systems hit by cyber-attack

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:32:19 +0100

Iranian oil infrastructures were hit by a cyber-attack during the last weekend. No permanent damages were done to the affected systems, the authorities say. Read more...

Visa and MasterCard could be victims of "massive" data breach

John Callaham — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:12:06 +0100

Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard have reported that a data breach at a US-based processor has recently occurred and may have exposed up to 10 million credit card numbers. Read more...

Hacker group taking over LulzSec name for new attacks

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:30:35 +0100

A cyber attack on the dating web site militarysingles.com has been claimed by a hacker group that calls itself LulzSec, a few weeks after the leader of that group assisted law enforcement teams. Read more...

Microsoft: financial info exposed in Microsoft India Store cyber attack

John Callaham — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:30:28 +0000

Microsoft has now admitted that financial information may have been exposed in a recent cyber attack on the Microsoft India Store web site. Read more...

Windows Phone not affected by smartphone exploit

John Callaham — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:00:28 +0000

The newly launched software security firm CrowdStrike has said that Windows Phone device cannot be affected by the exploit it discovered on Android-based smartphones last week. Read more...

Report: Android bug leave phones open to attack

John Callaham — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:49:56 +0000

A newly revealed software security firm claims it has found a bug in Android-based smartphones that could leave them open to attack and have them controlled by outside users. Read more...