Alex Hern reports: Samsung is “investigating” claims from security researchers that hackers can steal copies of fingerprints from the company’s 2014 flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone, as well as other Android devices, by exploiting a weakness in the operating system’s handling of biometric data. According to security firm FireEye, Android fails in its attempts to render fingerprint…
Month: April 2015
Massive TalkTalk data breach STILL causing customer scam tsunami
Kat Hall reports: A fresh wave of scammers appear to be targeting TalkTalk customers, following a massive data theft earlier this year, The Register has learned. In February, TalkTalk admitted to suffering a major breach into its users’ sensitive information, which may have led to some customers handing over bank data to hackers. Read more on The Register.
Tiger impersonator’s ex ‘stole medical records to fake pregnancy’
Rebecca Rosenberg reports: First, Minochy Delanois, 29, pulled her Tiger Woods-impersonator boyfriend through the rough — telling cops he’d harassed her and had even threatened to send nude pics of her to her bosses at NYU Langone Medical Center after she dumped him. But now, a little more than a year later, the charges against…
Unhappy Third Birthday to My Experian Complaint?
Three years ago today, I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about Experian’s data breaches. Back then, I knew about 60 breaches of their credit reporting database due to client login credentials being misused. There were also other breaches of their database involving people being able to authenticate as others to obtain credit reports,…
Ca: Charges laid under the Health Information Act (updated)
I just caught up with this April 16th press statement from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: An investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has resulted in 14 charges being laid against an individual under the Health Information Act (HIA). The OIPC conducted an investigation following a report from Alberta…
NC: Wake County Public Schools take servers offline after DDoS attack
WRAL reports: Officials with the Wake County Public School System said Wednesday that they took dozens of school websites offline after a server was hit by hackers. The attack happened several weeks ago on a server that hosts 54 of the 178 websites operated by the school system. WCPSS spokeswoman Lisa Luten said the hack…