Displaying items by tag: Data theft

Ahead of the holiday season, cloud application security firm Instart has released a plugin for the Chrome browser that can detect if card-skimming or other privacy violating code has been inserted into a site.

An employee of Japanese security outfit Trend Micro was caught accessing the internal data of 68,000 customers and disclosing it to outsiders, the company says.

American cyber security behemoth Symantec suffered a breach of its systems in February but kept quiet about it even though passwords and a list of companies said to be its clients were stolen by an attacker.