Infecting site visitors with malware cannot be good for business. Their PR department must be going nuts over this one…. Dan Goodin reports: The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, has been caught pushing ransomware that holds visitors’ files hostage until they pay a hefty fee. Malicious files provided by…
Month: April 2016
Goldcorp claims that there was an extortion attempt
Following up on my report on Daily Dot about Goldcorp being hacked and a lot of data being dumped, Bloomberg News now reports that Goldcorp’s CEO claims there was an extortion attempt. Obviously, I will be trying to follow up on this new development.
Opportunities Exist for SEC to Improve Its Controls over Financial Systems and Data – GAO
From a new GAO report: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) improved its information security by addressing weaknesses previously identified by GAO, including separating the user production network from the internal management network. However, weaknesses continue to limit the effectiveness of other security controls. In particular: While SEC had issued policies and implemented controls based…
Whistle-blowing hacker to become founding member of new political party in Latvia
The Baltic News Service reports: University of Latvia researcher Ilmars Poikans, also known by the nickname Neo, will become one of the founding members of the new political party to be established on May 3 at the initiative of independent MP Artuss Kaimins. Back in 2009, Neo stole from the Latvian State Revenue Service electronic data…
UK: West Dunbartonshire Council warned of court action by ICO over data protection failures
A Scottish council has been rapped by the regulator for repeatedly failing to train staff around data protection. West Dunbartonshire Council were told to implement training on several occasions, as well as being advised to put in place a policy around home working. But their failure to do so ultimately contributed to a data breach…
U.S. Steel Accuses China of Hacking
John W. Miller reports: U.S. Steel Corp. is alleging that Chinese government hackers stole proprietary methods for making lightweight steel on behalf of Chinese steel producers seeking to supply a bigger share of the U.S. auto-making market. Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, in a complaint filed on Tuesday with the International Trade Commission, said a computer belonging to a Pittsburgh researcher was hacked…