So here’s another case where employees are suing their employer after their W-2 data was phished. I wonder how many more lawsuits like this we may see, keeping in mind that I’ve listed over 120 entities whose employees had their W-2 data phished. Joe Robertson reports: A Rockhurst University employee hopes to represent some 1,200…
Month: May 2016
International ATM skimming network dismantled – Europol
On 18 May 2016, the French Gendarmerie of Pau[1], in close cooperation with the Investigative Unit of the Italian State Police of Imperia[2] and Europol, disrupted an international criminal group responsible for large-scale ATM skimming and money laundering. Composed mainly of French-Italian nationals, the criminal network used sophisticated ATM skimming devices which allowed them to compromise…
CA: Email gaffe at clinic exposes patients’ names and email addresses
Oops. It appears that somehow, Berkeley Endocrine Clinic had spam sent to a number of its patients. Trying to address that, they sent out an email to all patients. Unfortunately, as Dr. Omar Murad explains, the patients’ names and email addresses showed in the TO: field: On April 22, 2016, my office was subject to a spam…
AU: Email fail at Do Not Call Register, thousands of contacts exposed
Brendon Foye reports: Thousands of email addresses were exposed yesterday in an email sent on behalf of the Do Not Call Register. […] In an email sighted by CRN sent yesterday, DNCR Support informed about a planned service outage scheduled for 25 May. The email contained more than 2,000 email addresses in the “To” field….
NLC leaks its Private keys and sensitive information – A heartbleed Hack on NLC
Manoj Kumar Thambulingam reports: NLCIndia.com—one of the Indian Government Navarathna award winning public sector enterprise, providing several services through web interface — has reportedly been hacked , exposing the site’s user credentials.NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation) is an Indian Goverment owned Lignite mining and power generating company . And it was one of the elite company of India. It…
Technical report on RUAG breach: malware was from Turla family
More on the defense contractor RUAG breach previously noted on this site. Melani has issued a technical report on the breach that may be of interest to some. From the summary: The attackers have been using malware from the Turla family, which has been in the wild for several years. The variant observed in the…