“A misconfigured server exposed the taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals for an unknown period of time Before a Brazilian national can perform many tasks such as opening a bank account, creating a business, paying taxes, o...
The U.S. and U.K. are relatively well prepared for cyber attacks, compared to many other developed nations, but everyone has more work to do, according to a new cyber security study from McAfee and Security & Defence Agenda (SDA)....
via Washington Times This week, the group – apparently less than a dozen strong – posted hundreds of internal documents stolen from the Arizona State Police computer network, including the home addresses of several officers and their families. Cybersecurity experts tell The Washington Ti...
via Infowar Monitor IDG News Service — Israel is setting up a national task force to expand the state’s ability to defend vital infrastructure networks from cyberterrorist attacks by foreign countries and terrorist elements, according to a report on Wednesday by the country’s prime...
via Government Computer News An interesting shift in this year’s McAfee report on critical infrastructure security is that the United States has gone from being the most feared nation for launching attacks to No. 3 this year, behind China and Russia. But if China is seen as the most offensive thre...