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JPMorgan Employee Password Was Key in Hack Hitting 76 Million Homes

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, said a previously disclosed data breach affected 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. Customer names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses were taken, the New York-based bank said today in a regulatory filing.

The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose

It’s been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware.

How RAM Scrapers Work: The Sneaky Tools Behind the Latest Credit Card Hacks

Today, news broke of yet more large-scale credit-card breaches at big-box stores, this time at Albertson’s and Supervalu, grocery chains in the American west.

Hackers charged with stealing over $100m in US army and Xbox technology

Four men have been charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft, the US army and leading games manufacturers, as part of an alleged international hacking ring that netted more than $100m in intellectual property, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

How two remote Arctic territories became the front line in the battle for internet privacy

Visit a Norwegian website and chances are you’ll find it ends in .no – the top level domain for the country. However, the country’s domain name authority UNINETT Norid has two more country code top level domains (ccTLDs) up its sleeve. The pair are .

The Shellshock FAQ: Here’s what you need to know

The situation with the Shellshock bug is so fluid and complicated that even insiders have trouble keeping it all straight. These questions and answers may help you to understand the bug — actually “bugs” — and what you should do about them.

Why Americans expect privacy: An open letter to FBI Director James Comey

There is no doubt there are bad people in this world. All one has to do is turn on the evening news or open a Web browser. Last week’s shocker was the beheading of Colleen Hufford in an Oklahoma food processing plant.

CHART OF THE DAY: Scams Disguised As Social Networks Are On The Rise

Scams that target Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks are on the rise.

Disgruntled employees are increasingly e-sabotaging businesses, FBI says

Employees with an axe to grind are increasingly sticking it to their current or former employers using e-tools such as cloud storage sites or remote access to a company’s computer network, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Department said on Tuesday.

Bash bug as big as Heartbleed

Today’s bash bug is as big a deal as Heartbleed. That’s for many reasons. The first reason is that the bug interacts with other software in unexpected ways. We know that interacting with the shell is dangerous, but we write code that does it anyway.