Lush Cosmetics Data Breach

Lush Cosmetics, a handmade cosmetics company headquartered in Poole, Dorset in the United Kingdom with some 600 locations around the world, has ostensibly been the âvictim of hackersâ according to a post on their UK version web site http://www.lush.co.uk/ yesterday.

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The Market for Vulnerabilities: How Hackers Profit

As we noted a while back in our look at the 2011 vulnerability landscape, the number of software vulnerabilities in 2010 fell compared with the previous year though it still remained a significant threat to users. Developers like Google and Mozilla openly pay people or organizations who find and report vulnerabilities found in their [...]

Will 2011 signal a Mac virus onslaught? Not so fast

Is it really true that it’s only a matter of time before Macintosh users are under siege by a flood of viruses and malware? McAfee announced recently that 2011 would be a bad year for people using Apple computers, as hackers will be increasingly attracted by growing Mac market share. It’s not at all [...]

The rise of the citizen cyber-warrior

Matthew Olney: Depending on where you sit in the spectrum of security, you might think that the Internet is unguarded and that hackers run about unchecked. You could be forgiven for thinking this, but you’d also be completely wrong.

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Underground Credit Card Processor Compromised

A group of hackers has recently published detailed information from an underground credit card company. On July 23rd, an anonymous group claimed to have compromised a server of an online credit card processor company. At that time, however, the extent of the compromise was unclear. Looking at the data that was published leads us to [...]