Supervalu says it was breached – is it the next Target?

US retailer Supervalu is warning customers that an intrusion of its network may have resulted in the theft of credit and debit card account numbers from up to 200 of its stores. Meanwhile, a related data breach affected another 800 stores for which Supervalu provides IT services. Could this be the next Target?

Security must come first! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security. News you can learn from, in just one minute…

1,000,000 lost credit cards = £150,000 fine

A UK travel company has been fined £150,000 for putting an “internal only” parking database system on the internet without securing it first. The vulnerable system was used as a stepping stone for a crook to steal more than 1M e-commerce records.

SSCC 152 – PF Chang’s, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of scammers [PODCAST]

Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week’s security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the latest issues…

FitzRoy, Oleg Pliss, Spotify and TrueCrypt – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

Did FitzRoy get hacked? Who is Oleg Pliss? What’s up with Spotify? Where has TrueCrypt gone? 60 Second Security – 31 May 2014

‘Half of American adults hacked’ in the past year – really?

A new study publicized this week claims that almost half of all American adults have had their personal data hacked in the past year. Headline-grabbing truth-stretching? Or have 110 million Americans really been hacked?