The US Secret Service confirmed that it is investigating a potential data security attack at Texas-based arts and crafts retail chain Michaels Stores, which alerted its customers to check credit account statements for fraudulent charges.
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nCrypted Cloud raises $3M from angels to encrypt your Google, Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box accounts
nCrypted Cloud, a service that encrypts shared data on Dropbox, Google Drive and others, raised $3 million from angel investors for its seed funding round, TechCrunch reported.
Bell Canada reveals customers' user names, passwords posted on Internet after cyber breach
Bell's Canada unit, BCE Inc, said user names and passwords of 22,421 small business clients and five valid credit card numbers were shown illegally on the Internet this weekend after one of its suppliers was hacked, Bloomberg reported.
UK working to unblock harmless sites barred by Internet filter
The UK government is now listing down charities, educational, and other random websites wrongly blocked by Internet service providers when web filters designed to block porn came into full effect.
Yahoo resets mail passwords after detecting mass hack attempt
Internet giant Yahoo Inc disclosed via Tumblr that they have detected a coordinated mass hacking attempt on a yet undetermined number of Yahoo Mail accounts, and has reset the passwords of all affected accounts.
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American firm STOPit launched a mobile app that functions as a tool that students, parents, and schools can use to fight cyberbullying and report an incident to school officials, authorized adults, or law enforcers.
In a funny coincidence, four engineers from Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team were on Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread right before Gmail and other Google services experienced a worldwide outage.
Venture capital group Nexus Venture Partners will pour INR30 crore into Pune, India-based cybersecurity company Uniken to fund its expansion into Israel and the US.
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company backed by private equity, said it had evidence that linked the Russian government to cyber espionage campaigns on numerous Asian, European and American companies, Reuters reported.
Shape Security, a Mountain View, California-based secretive cybersecurity startup founded by former Pentagon employees, wants to slow down hackers using software that scrambles website codes.
Israel-based firm Aorato secured $10 million for its Series B round participated in by well-known investors as it launches into the cyber security with its pioneering product known as the Directory Services Application Firewall.
Menlo Park, California-based security startup Adallom bagged $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures to boost its sales presence and development projects.
San Francisco, California-based mobile security firm Bluebox Security snagged $18 million in a Series B funding round led by Tenaya Capital amid the growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend that opens opportunities for security ventures in the tech market.
Dallas-based Neiman Marcus Group Ltd was given two weeks by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions about the cyber breach that happened during the holiday rush, Bloomberg reported.
