Breach

An organization that sells consumer information, including names, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and credit histories, has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to properly screen potential customers, leading to the sale of at least 318 reports to ID thieves.

Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 3.0.7, which fixes multiple security issues that could potentially enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or spoof the location bar, according to an advisory from US-CERT Thursday.

Online photography store iStockphoto warned of a phishing attack targeted against its website on Wednesday, "We strongly urge all users who logged in at some point today to change their passwords," the company said on its website. "In addition, do not open any site mail for the next 24 hours." Attackers created a fake iStockphoto login screen, saved users' credentials on a malicious server then redirected them back to the website's main page. The company said that no financial information was breached. — AM

Financial fraud last year caused 7.5 percent of all adults in the United States to lose money, largely because of data breaches.

The blueprints for President Obama's helicopter, Marine One, were downloaded from a peer-to-peer (P2P) network and onto a computer in Tehran, Iran, a file-sharing monitoring company has revealed.

Emails spoofed to look like they are coming from Delta Airlines to confirm a ticket purchase are attempting to infect users with a trojan.

Netezza, makers of data management products, has acquired database auditing and monitoring firm Tizor Systems for $3.1 million, according to a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal will enable Netezza users "to track, store and perform forensic analysis" to help them more readily meet compliance demands, the company said in a release. — DK