Credit Card Breach at Home Depot

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

Multiple banks say they are seeing evidence that Home Depot stores may be the source of a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit cards that went on sale this morning in the cybercrime underground. Home Depot says that it is working with banks and law enforcement agencies to ...

4.5 Million Patient IDs Compromised in Hospital Hack

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

One of the country's biggest hospital operators, Community Health Systems, on Monday announced that its computer network was the "target of an external, criminal cyber attack" which saw the compromise of patient identification data for "approximately 4.5 million individuals." The attacker or attackers are believed to have originated in China, according ...

NSA-Proof “Blackphone” Gets Rooted Within 5 Minutes

Monday, August 11th, 2014

The ultra secure NSA-Proof Blackphone titled as, “world’s first Smartphone which places privacy and control directly in the hands of its users,” has been rooted within 5 minutes at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas this weekend. Blackphone, a joint venture between encrypted communications firm Silent Circle and Spanish Smartphone ...

YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED!

Wednesday, August 6th, 2014

Over the past 18 months, this was our conversation starter with many companies and individuals. Helping our clients prevent breaches or find their stolen data is our business. If you have been following information security, or even if you haven’t, you have probably heard of Hold Security and our work. ...

LaCie admits to year-long credit card breach

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

LaCie is the latest major retailer and tech company finding itself to be the target of a major security breach by unknown assailants. The French hardware company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that malware successfully made its way through to access sensitive customer information stemming from transactions on its website. Here's where things ...