{"id":77764,"date":"2014-02-01T19:19:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=77764"},"modified":"2014-02-01T19:19:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T13:49:55","slug":"latest-it-security-news-updates-and-alerts-for-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/latest-it-security-news-updates-and-alerts-for-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest IT Security News, Updates and Alerts for this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week too was quite an eventful one for the IT Security world, as the others in the past. It included a tale about how a $50,000 Twitter account was hacked, arrest of a CEO, Angry Birds, and ChewBacca – the new malware in town.<\/p>\n

\"paypal_godaddy_hacked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

#1.<\/span> An interesting tale of how a man lost his $50,000 Twitter user name. Detailed story here.<\/a><\/div>\n

\"bitcoin_CEO_arrested\"<\/a><\/p>\n

#2.<\/span> Bitcoin Exchange CEO arrested for involvement in money laundering and running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Read the complete story.<\/a><\/div>\n

\"angry_birds_website_defaced\"<\/a><\/p>\n

#3. <\/span>Apparently, U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have been mining user information from popular game Angry Birds. In response, hackers defaced the game\u2019s website. Complete story here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"yahoo_mail_hacked\"<\/p>\n

#4. <\/span>Yahoo resets user passwords following a nasty cyber attack on Yahoo mail; implements an extra verification step during sign in. More about this news here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

\"chewbaca\"<\/a><\/p>\n

#5. <\/span>Meet \u201cChewBacca\u201d – the new darling of hackers. Despite being a less-sophisticated threat, it managed to steal payment card information from point-of-sale terminals of small retailers in 11 countries. Know about this malware here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week too was quite an eventful one for the IT Security world, as the others in the past. It included a tale about how a $50,000 Twitter account was hacked, arrest of a CEO, Angry Birds, and ChewBacca – the new malware in town. #1. An interesting tale of how a man lost his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":77779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[862,719,863,864,85,865,839],"class_list":["post-77764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-angry-birds-website","tag-bitcoin","tag-chewbacca","tag-godaddy","tag-paypal","tag-pos","tag-yahoo-mail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}