Info From 40 Million Credit Cards Stolen From Target

For a store that’s logo is a giant bulls-eye, Target recently found itself in the crosshairs of  some credit card thieves. And, if you shopped at a physical Target location in the United States between November 27th and December 15th and used a credit or a debit card, your financial information may have been stolen as well. At the...

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Torrent Uploader Fined $652,000 For Uploading 1 Movie

In spite of the heat on torrent sites, as well as uploaders and downloaders, it seems that people are not really deterred from carrying on. Even The Pirate Bay, the world’s most resilient torrent site, continues to operate. Of course, we don’t know how much longer they can resist with pressure coming from all sides. Still, people who...

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Pony Botnet Steals 2 M Yahoo, Facebook, Google Passwords

According to researchers at Spiderlabs, criminals have scooped up more than 2 million passwords for sites such as Facebook, Yahoo and search engine giant Google, but it appears that the data was stolen via malware-infected machines rather than a direct hack of their systems. Trustwave‘s SpiderLabs delved into source code from the Pony botnet and made some staggering discoveries. ...

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US agrees to pay $50m after 'piracy' of software

  The US government has agreed to pay $50m (£31m) after it was said to have pirated "thousands" of copies of military software. Apptricity, based in Texas, has provided logistics programs to the army since 2004. The company said it had discovered last year the software had been installed on many more machines than had been licensed. The...

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Akamai to Acquire DDoS Security Firm Prolexic for $370M

Akamai Technologies on Monday announced it has agreed to buy Prolexic Technologies for about $370 million in cash to bolster its cyber-security offerings. Hollywood, Fla.-based Prolexic offers cloud-based security solutions for protecting data centers and enterprise IP applications from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which leverage large numbers of compromised PCs to flood a website with traffic...

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