The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Davidson & Co.  fined $375,000 over 2007 data breach  resulted in the exposure of customer names, account numbers, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth and other confidential information belonging to about 192,000 customers. Davidson & Co. learned of the breach in January 2008 when it received an extortion note from one [...]

After the serious security flaw discovered last month in the Apache’s httpd web server which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database, the Apache Foundation was hit by another security incident. In less that a year’s time, the Apache website was hacked twice. First one happened in august last year, and this one in the beginning [...]

Google has just introduced a new useful security feature for Gmail accounts. This feature will track and display all suspicious logins to their e-mail accounts. The feature is currently available for the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Using several criteria it determines whether logins are legit or not . If not it [...]

The all time increasing reports of business losing millions of dollars at the hands of organized cyber criminals may force commercial banks to take more stringent measures to protect customers. Last month Brian Krebs interviewed Robert C. Drozdowski, a senior technology specialist with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) . From the interview it seems that the banking regulators have [...]