Cybersecurity
Students’ vision tests and personal data eyed online
Education // Healthcare and Public Health // Illinois, United States
Cybersecurity
Seizure Sunday Precedes Cyber Monday
ICE seized nearly 300 websites selling phony goods before the online shopping spree.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon ponders going mobile with CAC
Any solution in this "very complicated field" will have to reach beyond the Defense Department.
Emerging Tech
Bitcoin Users Lose $40 Million in Apparent Narcotics Bazaar Heist
Authorities aren't commenting on the shutdown of Sheep Marketplace, where sellers and buyers used the virtual cash to cut deals anonymously.
Cybersecurity
Kenyans scammed by hacked Facebook friends
Financial Services // Social Media // Kenya
Cybersecurity
Hackers query 2.5M accounts at Ariz. community college
Education // Arizona, United States
Cybersecurity
Hackers Redeem Airline Miles, Probe Syrian Regime’s Porn, and Bet the Horses
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
NSA Used Retro Tactics to Spy on Yahoo, Google
Intercepting fiber optic cables echos telegraph hacks.
Cybersecurity
Map Shows the NSA's Massive Worldwide Malware Operations
NSA hackers have reached companies across the world.
Cybersecurity
Envelope typo exposes 40,000 medical marijuana users and location of their pot
Healthcare and Public Health // Canada
Cybersecurity
Cyber crooks target digital signatures
Report finds a new family of mobile phone malware allows electronic attackers to bypass the digital signature apps that are key to "identity ecosystems."
Cybersecurity
Hackers Crack GitHub, Release a Treaty and Listen In On MacRumors
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Rockefeller aims to add cyber overhaul to defense bill
Measure would provide a statutory framework to some elements of President Barack Obama's executive order on cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity