Lorenzo's Security Blog

RockYou, the popular provider of third-party apps for Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking services, is being hit with a proposed class-action accusing the company of having such poor data security that at least one hacker got away with 32 million e-mails and their passwords. The suit accuses the maker of apps like “Slideshow” for MySpace [...]

Senator ‘Astonished” That Breach Lasted So Long…. The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee told the chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems that she was “astonished” a breach the company’s information system lasted for nearly 1½ years without being detected. At a panel hearing Monday on protecting industry against growing [...]

A serial hacker has been charged with carrying out the largest theft of credit card identities ever recorded in the U.S., in a sophisticated scam in which he and accomplices allegedly stole at least 130m accounts from big retail companies. Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, who once worked with the US secret service, is accused [...]

Image via Wikipedia MasterCard, Visa warn security breach may compromise data – USATODAY.com Visa and MasterCard have begun notifying member banks around the nation to contact patrons whose card accounts may have been compromised in the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. Robert Baldwin, Heartland’s President and CFO, said in a USA TODAY interview that Visa [...]