This time last year, hackers were busy siphoning 40 million credit cards from Target – can we expect something similar to happen again this year? November has been rather quiet compared to previous months this year – the calm before the storm, perhaps?
Payment information breach
Staples confirms POS malware attack
Backcountry Gear hit with payment data breach twice in three months
Data breach affects 2.7 million HSBC Turkey cardholders
Malware on Central Dermatology Center server since August 2012
Visionworks notifies 75K Maryland customers of missing database server
Malware possibly compromised payment cards at Grand Casino Mille Lacs
Data breach
Australian immigration department unlawfully leaked asylum seeker data
Hackers seize database from City of Detroit, demand $800k in bitcoin
USPS data breach affects over three million
Home Depot admits 53 million email addresses stolen in data breach
Breach impacts about 10,000 employees in Maryland school system
Cyber attack
Sony Pictures Entertainment hacked
Syrian Electronic Army attack on Gigya affects Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard…
Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS attack and Windows security flaw
Nottinghamshire Police website hacked by pro-Palestine AnonGhost group
Hackers hijack Craigslist domain
US State Department network shut amid reports of cyber breach
Discovered vulnerabilities
Microsoft warns that Kerberos bug allows hackers to compromise entire networks
Drupal malware could have affected up to 12 million websites
Rootpipe Flaw in OS X Could Allow Hackers to Completely Take Over Your Mac
Other
Microsoft Azure glitch knocks websites offline
Regin spyware alert – advanced cyber espionage malware discovered
Amazon UK customers targeted by email attack
Security firm G4S sees share price knocked by £12 hoax
Holidaymakers hooked by Booking.com phishing campaign
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