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TJX Companies revealed late Wednesday in a regulatory filing that hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit card holders when they illegally accessed the discount retailer's processing systems during 2005 and 2006. Last month's DDoS attack on the systems-regarded as the backbone of the internet-badly damaged two of the web's 13 root servers, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today halted trading on shares of 35 companies believed to be involved in recent pump-and-dump spam campaigns. Malicious programs also up 41 percent on the previous year. Why the co-founder and CTO of AppGate came up with a solution for deperimeterisation before anyone had ever heard of it. The Russians are coming. With so many security threats on the horizon, it may be comforting to know the strongest security asset is already inside the company employees. Spam clogging up the server was only the start. A sound email policy is the only way to handle security breaches and compliance. Emails claiming to contain news of the fierce storms causing havoc across Europe have spread viruses to hundreds of thousands of recipients, according to a security firm. Cutting-edge phishers are creating websites in Flash to evade detection by toolbars, security experts said this week. Today marks the sixth anniversary of the release of the so-called Love Bug, a mass email worm that spread to millions of PCs worldwide and was responsible for an estimated $10 billion in economic damage. Compromised Websites are replacing email for mass distribution of malware argues Paul A. Henry. Voice over IP (VoIP) hacking attacks will surge next year as more businesses implement the technology, according to one message security vendor. Running parallel to the huge business benefits brought about by the ubiquitous and increasingly open-access use of computers are huge risks resulting from information security breaches. Two months after the U.S. population reached 300 million people, the nation realised a more troubling statistical milestone when the nonprofit organisation, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse today reported that more than 100 million records have been exposed since the ChoicePoint data breach. A website that purports to help underprivileged children is actually a scam to dupe users into laundering money, a security company has warned.
A New Hampshire woman pleaded guilty this week in connection with a mass pornographic spamming operation resulting in more than 600,000 complaints from America Online customers. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it charged a Florida man today in federal court for establishing a botnet from which he launched a denial of service attack on a Massachusetts technology firm. Web-based viruses decreased by half in September, according to new figures from US-based security firm ScanSafe. As many as 240,000 subscribers to The Boston Globe and Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette could be at risk for identity theft after their credit card numbers mistakenly were printed on the back of routing slips attached to newspaper bundles, the papers reported this week.