A federal grand jury in Baltimore this week indicted former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Harold Thomas Martin III for allegedly stealing what it estimates as a “breathtaking” 50 terabytes of classified intelligence data....
Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., has confirmed that a breach affected payment systems at its corporate restaurant locations. Information security investigative journalist Brian Krebs first learned something was up when several banks and credit unions reached out to him inquiring if he had heard of an incident involving Arby’s. He subsequently reached out to the Atlanta-headquartered fast food restaurant chain about those inquiries. In response, a spokesperson for the company confirmed in a statement it had received reports about a breach in mid-January but hadn’t publicly disclosed it at the request of the FBI.....
The security firm, Kaspersky has a descendant of ugly malware, Stuxnet which has infected more than 140 companies, banks, government groups and telecom companies. Because infections are so hard to spot, the actual number is likely much higher...
The White House has confirmed that the Office of Personnel Management has suffered a second cyber attack, likely carried out by the same hackers who infiltrated the OPM's server and stole 4.2 million federal employees' data, according to the New York Times. Officials say the hackers, who have ties to China, have accessed federal security clearance forms containing sensitive information about intelligence and military personnel...
Millions of government employee records apparently stolen by Chinese hackers were not encrypted, and software designed to block known computer breaches has not been installed to protect most of the files, officials said Tuesday....
Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT [LOT.UL] were grounded at Warsaw's Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said...
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