Seen on NACS: Last Friday, NACS and a group including eight other trade associations sent a letter to every U.S. Senator articulating the priorities of the associations in the context of data breach or data security legislation. The Senate has indicated that it might consider cybersecurity information-sharing legislation on the floor this coming week and if so,…
Month: August 2015
Dubizzle’s UAE website suffers security breach
Neil Halligan reports: Classified listing website dubizzle.com has said its UAE website suffered a security breach where a small number of registered users have been affected. dubizzle’s General Manager, Barry Judge said the company sent an email to users on Saturday following the discovery of the breach, warning people to change passwords as a precaution….
APT28 hack will cost French broadcaster TV5Monde €15 million
So first they thought it was CyberCaliphate who was responsible for the TV5Monde hack that was disclosed in April. Then they said it was Russia’s APT28 group. Regardless of who it was, the hack was costly, as I noted here last week. Neil Ford reports: Yves Bigot, the network’s director general, was quoted by France…
Athletics roiled by mass doping allegations after blood test leak
Karolos Grohmann reports: Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organizations said on Sunday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s ARD/WDR broadcaster said they had obtained the secret…
REMEMBER EMAD Attacks DoD: Claim
Remember Emad, a hacking crew that claimed to have attacked Israeli sites in March 2012, and to have attacked an Israeli Webgate server in August 2012 and dumped data, has apparently claimed to have attacked the Pentagon. Seen on Cryptome, August 1: from : REMEMBER EMAD crew to : Pentagon subject : op910 we are responsible…
Network Solutions customer sites defaced
Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…