Avi Mizrahi reports on an interesting revelation in the Avalanche case: Reports of individuals, corporations, banks and even hospitals falling victim to ransomware are nothing new these days, but now we learn that the office of a US state attorney has also been blackmailed for bitcoin. The Allegheny County district attorney, Stephen Zappala Jr., has confirmed…
Month: December 2016
Former IT employee at Expedia pleads guilty to snooping on emails for stock deals
Gene Johnson reports: A former information technology worker at Expedia Inc. pleaded guilty Monday to securities fraud after authorities said he used his access to the computers of top executives to rummage through their email, then made lucrative, illegal stock trades based on the inside information he discovered. Prosecutors said Jonathan Ly, 28, of San Francisco…
Eir warns broadband customers of modem security breach
BreakingNews.ie reports: Eir is warning costumers that its modems have been comprised in a security breach. It is understood at least 2,000 have been breached by a computer virus. Costumers are being advised to reset their devices after a security vulnerability identified on a “limited number” of Zyxel D100 and Zyxel P-660HN-T1A broadband modems. Read…
Experian denies that database up for sale on dark web is their data
It was only last week that Experian released a white paper on what it sees as data breach risks for 2017. Perhaps ironically, then, it was only days later when a dark web vendor claimed to have Experian’s database for sale. HackRead reported on “DoubleFlag’s” listing: The hacker claims he has access to the Experian database which contains…
DailyMotion Allegedly Hacked, 85 Million User Accounts Stolen
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unknown hacker has supposedly breached video sharing platform DailyMotion and stolen details for 87.6 million accounts, belonging to approximately 85 million users, according to data breach index website LeakedSource. LeakedSource, who provides a searchable database of user details leaked in various hacks, has added the DailyMotion stolen data to its search…
e-Wallets: No prescribed security standards under Indian e-wallet laws puts your financial data at risk
Asheeta Regidi reports: The government is pushing very strongly for a cashless society. After the demonetisation move, several initiatives have been seen to further encourage going cashless. The latest of these is the Ministry of Urban Development’s direction for all Urban Local Bodies to shift to e-payments. While cashless transactions are a convenience and the…