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Beware of fake ‘Obamacare’ sites that want to steal your info

2013-10-03/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

President Barack Obama’s health care reform law kicks in Oct. 1, and cybercriminals, along with health care providers, are standing by, only too eager for you to share your personal information.

Adobe says customer info, source code hacked

2013-10-03/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Adobe Systems said on Thursday it was the victim of sophisticated cyberattacks on its networks by hackers who accessed data belonging to millions of customers along with the source code to some of its popular software titles.

Beware of fake ‘Obamacare’ sites that want to steal your info

2013-10-03/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

President Barack Obama’s health care reform law kicks in Oct. 1, and cybercriminals, along with health care providers, are standing by, only too eager for you to share your personal information.

Adobe says customer info, source code hacked

2013-10-03/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

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Beware of fake ‘Obamacare’ sites that want to steal your info

2013-10-03/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

President Barack Obama’s health care reform law kicks in Oct. 1, and cybercriminals, along with health care providers, are standing by, only too eager for you to share your personal information.

There’s already a lot of confusion out there about the Affordable Care Act, and as some of us start to finally pay attention and get ready to sign up for coverage, scammers and phishers are at the ready for those people who opt to sign up for coverage by doing it online at the Health Insurance Exchange. (You can learn more about the plan here.)

What makes it a potential gold mine for cyberthieves is that the Health Insurance Exchange “isn’t made up of a single authoritative site where people can go and register for coverage,” writes Christopher Budd, threat communications manager for Trend Micro security, in a blog post.

In addition to the federal site, he says, “people can apply for coverage at sites run by individual states. Then, within each state, there can also be legitimate third-party sites that provide assistance and even broker coverage.”

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Adobe says customer info, source code hacked

2013-10-03/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

BOSTON — Adobe Systems said on Thursday it was the victim of sophisticated cyberattacks on its networks by hackers who accessed data belonging to millions of customers along with the source code to some of its popular software titles.

Chief Security Officer Brad Arkin said in a statement that the company believes the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords and removed data relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers. That information includes customer names, encrypted payment card numbers, expiration dates and information relating to orders, he said.

He said they also accessed the source code for several Adobe software titles including Acrobat, ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder.

KrebsOnSecurity, a cybersecurity news site, reported earlier on Thursday that a week ago it found what appeared to be a massive trove of Adobe’s source code on the server of hackers believed to be responsible for breaches at three major U.S. data providers.

It said it discovered the code while conducting an investigation into breaches at Dun & Bradstreet, Altegrity’s Kroll Background America and Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis. Those attacks were disclosed on Sept. 25.