Pádraig Hoare reports: Irish customers were among those who had data stolen by hackers on one of the world’s most popular hotel booking sites, Hotels.com, the company has confirmed. The website has sent compromised customers an email advising that their username, password, email address, and the last four digits of stored credit card numbers were…
Month: June 2017
Hackers Vow to Release Apparent Trove of U.A.E. Ambassador’s Emails
Kevin Poulsen reports: A hacker group calling itself “GlobalLeaks” has begun distributing hacked emails stolen from the inbox of Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United States and a man credited for cementing America’s close alliance with the U.A.E. in the war on ISIS. The hackers reached out to The Daily…
Russian suspected hacker moves step closer to US extradition
Shaun Walker reports: A Russian suspected hacker has moved a step closer to being sent to the US as a Czech judge gave tentative approval for an extradition to go ahead, during a court hearing held inside a high-security prison in Prague. Yevgeniy Nikulin, who was arrested at a restaurant in the Czech capital last…
How we hacked more than 10,000 user accounts at the University of Amsterdam
I seem to have missed this one a few weeks ago, but this post on Auke Zwaan is definitely worth noting: Last year, Bram ter Borch (a fellow student of the Master System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam) and I did a security review of the Blackboard implementation at the University of…
University of Alaska: thousands affected by data breach, including names, social security numbers
KTUU reports: Approximately 25,000 students, staff, and faculty members associated with the University of Alaska were affected following a successful phishing scam and subsequent data breach late last year. The University of Alaska sent out letters to those people who had their names and accompanying social security numbers exposed to “an individual or individuals unknown…
Protecting Sensitive Hospital Data Is Becoming Harder For Some Entrepreneurs
Melissa Thompson reports: The Wall Street Journal recently ran a disturbing article about hospital data security — or the lack thereof. It seems that Tanium, a new cybersecurity company, is alleged to have used private data from a hospital in El Camino, CA during their sales demonstrations with other health facilities throughout the state, and…