Tagged: Data Breach & News
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More than one in 10 Irish workers has taken contact list from work - survey News
10.05.2012 More than one in 10 Irish employees admit to having taken the contact list from their previous job, a new survey claims. -
Security group IRISSCERT promotes safe password use among teens News
09.05.2012 IRISSCERT, the non-profit computer emergency response team, has launched an awareness campaign to highlight the need for secure passwords among teenagers and young adults. -
Hackers get away with 1.5m credit card numbers in US News
02.04.2012 An attack by hackers on credit-card processing giant Global Payments saw hackers make away with numbers and information relating to up to 1.5m credit-card accounts. -
UK costs of data breach up 68pc in five years News
21.03.2012 Employee negligence is behind 36pc of all data breaches, the cost of which has risen for the fifth consecutive year, a study by Symantec Corp and Ponemon Institute suggests. -
WikiLeaks to publish 5m emails from intelligence agency News
27.02.2012 WikiLeaks will publish more than 5m emails from US-based global intelligence company Stratfor, which it says contains material about the US’ attacks against WikiLeaks. -
YouPorn breach – hackers get away with 6,400 user names/passwords News
23.02.2012 YouPorn, which is one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, has been attacked by hackers who exposed the user names and passwords of some 6,400 users. -
Hackers attack Eircom StudyHub – 11,000 usernames and passwords at risk News
17.02.2012 Hackers have breached a server that potentially risks some 10,829 account details, including 8,404 Eircom StudyHub customers. Eircom has emailed 20,000 registered StudyHub users... -
Eircom laptop theft: 7,000 customers' bank details at risk News
10.02.2012 Three laptops stolen from Eircom’s offices in west Dublin and an employee’s home could contain financial information relating to 6,845 eMobile and Meteor customers, along with...Categories: Security, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Financial, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications -
Almost half of IT staff want better data protection training - survey News
31.01.2012 Nearly half of Irish IT administration staff surveyed by the Irish Computer Society (ICS) believe they were not given adequate data protection training, with some saying they... -
Biggest hacking campaign ever discovered – Operation Shady RAT News
03.08.2011 The biggest hacking campaign ever has been uncovered, which breached computer networks of 72 organisations worldwide, including governments, the UN and defence contractors. -
Attackers claim to breach Italian cybercops' network News
26.07.2011 A group of cyber attackers are claiming to have breached the network of the Italian government agency responsible for guarding critical national infrastructure, obtaining access... -
Anonymous leaks 90,000 military login details News
12.07.2011 Anonymous has infiltrated a US military contractor’s server, taking 90,000 military email addresses and passwords and posting them online. -
4,800 websites erased in Australian web host hack News
22.06.2011 Australian domain registrar and web host DistributeIT is unable to recover 4,800 websites after a "malicious attack" on its servers. -
Sega Pass hack compromised 1.3m members’ data News
20.06.2011 Game company Sega confirmed that data from 1.3m customers was stolen by hackers from its Sega Pass online membership network. -
CIA site the victim of the latest LulzSec hacker attack News
16.06.2011 Hacker group LulzSec has earned itself another notch with the brief taking down of the mighty Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) website. -
Phishing fears follow cyber attack on 200,000 Citigroup customers News
09.06.2011 The nature of the data stolen in the latest cyber attack that has seen 200,000 accounts – or 1pc of US banking giant Citigroup’s customer base – hacked by a cyber gang will make... -
Citigroup reports data breach News
09.06.2011 Computer hackers have breached Citigroup's network and accessed data on hundreds of thousands of bank-card holders in North America, Citigroup has said. -
Sony offers to compensate PC gamers for cyber attack News
13.05.2011 Sonly Online Entertainment has outlined the compensation it is prepared to offer PC gamers affected by the continued shutdown of its 25m-user network following a major data... -
45pc of Irish organisations back data up on tape - survey News
11.05.2011 Forty-five per cent of Irish organisations prefer to back up their sensitive data on tape, a survey suggests. -
Sony PlayStation breach – how each country has been hit News
04.05.2011 Details have emerged from Sony’s press conference in terms of how many users have been affected by the attack on the PlayStation Network per country. About 9.2m UK accounts and...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech