Brian Krebs

Social media giant Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is making headlines for another privacy scandal, according to cybercrime investigative journalist Brian Krebs. What Happened Facebook employees had easy access to hundreds of millions of Facebook users that were stored in "plain text," Krebs...

Overstock.com Inc (NASDAQ: OSTK) and Coinbase fixed a serious glitch in their bitcoin payment system that could have potentially been exploited by Overstock shoppers, according to independent journalist Brian Krebs. In a blog post, Krebs said the issue stemmed from Overstock’s decision to...

There's word of another major corporate security breach – this one involving several high-profile hotel chains. According to Brian Krebs, an independent computer security reseacher and former Washington Post reporter, a company that maintains hotel franchises in several national brands –...