Darren Pauli reports: Four FireEye researchers have found a way to steal fingerprints from Android phones packing biometric sensors such as the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the HTC One Max. The team found a forehead-slapping flaw in HTC One Max in which fingerprints are stored as an image file (dbgraw.bmp) in a open “world readable”…
Month: August 2015
Facebook hacker arrested in Bangladesh
Here’s a recent news item I missed from Bangladesh: The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a hacker, who has so far hacked 100 Facebook accounts especially of female users to blackmail them, in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. Mahmudul Hasan, 20, a fourth semester computer science and technology student of East-West University, hacked FB…
Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist
Brian Krebs reports: Networking firm Ubiquiti Networks Inc. disclosed this week that cyber thieves recently stole $46.7 million using an increasingly common scam in which crooks spoof communications from executives at the victim firm in a bid to initiate unauthorized international wire transfers. Ubiquiti, a San Jose based maker of networking technology for service providers and enterprises,…
Cheatin’ Ain’t Easy: Potential Theories of Liability Emerge for Online Cheating Website Ashley Madison
Joseph F. Welborn III discusses possible theories of liability for lawsuits against Ashley Madison in the wake of its massive databreach. He writes, in part: One interesting theory of liability comes from an old common law tort that has been phased out legislatively in all but seven states – alienation of affections. In fact, this…
Watchdog accuses OPM of hindering hack investigation
Fox News reports: The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general is accusing a senior agency official of hindering their investigation into the massive breach of security clearance and personal information for millions of federal employees. Inspector General Patrick McFarland claimed that OPM Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour slowed his investigation into the breach, and that…
Former Oakland Accountant Sentenced To Over Four Years In Prison For Identity Theft Tax Fraud Scheme
OAKLAND – Robert Thomas Doyle was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $142,031 for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Doyle, 64, of Oakland, pleaded guilty on February 23, 2015. According to the plea agreement, during 2011, 2012, and 2013, Doyle implemented an identity theft and…