Rene Ritchie reports: Update: Apple has provided me with the following statement, which should close the door on speculation surrounding this purported exploit: “The recent report about a passcode bypass on iPhone was in error, and a result of incorrect testing” Yesterday, a security researcher reported on a possible brute-force passcode attack that affected iPhone…
Month: June 2018
Midwest City notifies residents of incident that affected numerous municipalities
Midwest City, Oklahoma reports that about 2,300 customers were potentially affected by a breach involving software needed to use Click2Gov. As Dark Reading recently explained: Risk Based Security’s Inga Goddijn noticed a pattern of Click2Gov, a product of Superion Software, appearing in breach notification letters. The notifications came from cities across the United States, which…
FBI Publishes its 2017 Internet Crime Report
Justin Hemmings of Alston & Bird writes: The FBI recently published its 2017 Internet Crime Report highlighting trends and statistics compiled by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) during 2017. The report compiles data from a total of 301,580 complaints which reported losses of over $1.4 billion. In addition to an explanation of the…
Aadhaar Security Failure: Government Webpages Provide Unsecured Access To Demographic Authentication
Aria Thaker reports: In another exposure of Aadhaar’s cybersecurity weaknesses, over 70 subdomains under a Government of India website are providing access to demographic-authentication services without requiring identity verification from the requester. The websites allow users to access an application programming interface, or API, in which anyone can enter a person’s Aadhaar number, name, gender…
Indian-origin Singapore woman faces jail for data leak in ‘biggest scam’ to hit US navy
Gurdip Singh reports: ‘Contract specialist’ Sharon Rachael Gursharan Kaur allegedly got $95,000 to sell information used to sway defence bids. Singapore: A 57-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean woman, accused of being involved in the largest bribery case in the history of the US Navy, may face a jail term of more than three years, a media report said…
Former worker can’t sue Coca-Cola over data breach, U.S. Court says
Matt Miller reports: A former Coca-Cola employee has failed to convince a federal appeals court to revive his lawsuit against the soft drink colossus over a data breach. Shane Enslin simply has no proof that unauthorized charges to his online accounts stemmed from a Coke tech’s theft of company computers containing Enslin’s personal information, a…