Cyber Attack Cost EMC $66 Million
According to its earnings call released yesterday, EMC Corporation spent $66 million in the second quarter to combat a cyber attack that compromised its RSA security division. The company used a significant portion of the money for transaction monitoring for the company’s corporate customers following the attack. EMC also offered replacements to any company that [...]
Members of hacking collective Anonymous announced yesterday via Twitter they have breached the North Atlantic Treaty Organization system and accessed about 1 gigabyte of restricted material from the servers. “We are sitting on about one Gigabyte of data from NATO now, most of which we cannot publish as it would be irresponsible. But Oh NATO….”, [...]
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FTC: Consumer Confidence in Internet Marketplace Relies on Privacy Protections
July 5, 2011 No CommentThe Federal Trade Commission has told Congress consumers must be confident their privacy will be protected if they were to take advantage of all the benefits offered by the Internet marketplace. “Privacy has been an important component of the [FTC's] consumer protection mission for 40 years,” stated Commissioner Julie Brill‘s June 29 testimony to the [...]
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Police in Omaha, Neb., are investigating an identity theft case involving hackers who stole personal information using customers’ credit and debit cards, ketv.com reports. Investigators said more than 50 victims from across the Omaha metro area were targeted in the last few days or weeks following a breach of security through a credit card processor. [...]
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