Some of the largest data brokers in the US may need to carry out a security audit, after an investigation found that they had been hacked by an identity theft service.
Dun & Bradstreet, LexisNexis and Altegrity were all affected by the breach, leaving sensitive information such as social security numbers at the hands of cyber criminals.
Media outlets are advised to be on high alert after the Syrian Electronic Army attacked a number of high profile outlets over recent weeks.
The FBI issued the warning and said the group was particularly capable in the areas of hijacking social media accounts, web defacements and spearphishing.
A group of hackers who are believed to have been behind recent attacks on media sources such as The New York Times have warned that their work is not over yet.
The Syrian Electronic Army was interviewed via email by the BBC, which said that there were "many surprises" still in store.
China has revealed details of what it is billing as the biggest cyber attack ever to hit the country.
There is still no information on who might have been responsible for the breach, which involved a distributed denial of service attack aimed at servers with .cn domain name sites.
The New York Times went offline earlier this week (August 27) following a suspected hacking.
Google Cloud Storage has taken steps to improve the security of its users' data, as automatic encryption now comes as standard with the product.
Before any data is written to disk, each object will be encrypted with a unique key under the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-128).
A security vulnerability has been detected in Google Glass – more specifically the QR codes that are used to give the system instructions.
Lookout, a security technology firm, found that it could create malicious QR codes, which when seen by a Google Glass user, could encourage the system to connect to a hostile WiFi access point controlled by hackers.
Those in charge of the United States Emergency Alert System (EAS) have been forced to reassess their vulnerability management, after it emerged that hackers could infiltrate the technology.
The EAS was introduced back in 1997 and gives the President of the United States the ability to address the nation within ten minutes of a disaster occurring.
Users of Ubisoft's Uplay site have been warned that their personal data may have been compromised following a security breach that originated from its online systems.
Hackers targeted sensitive data such as email addresses and passwords, but the company explained that it does not retain any financial information so this is not under threat.
As many as 71 per cent of Australians are currently using a cloud service, leading many to express concerns about the security of their data, a new paper has found.
The research, entitled ‘The cloud: services, computing and digital data – emerging issues in media and communications’, showed that people are unsure about how their information is being managed and protected.
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