Catalin Cimpanu reports: In an email sent to customers on Friday, October 5, Amazon said it fired an employee for sharing customers’ email addresses with a third-party seller. Third-party sellers are companies or individuals who sell products on Amazon. Amazon said it’s working with law enforcement in support of the former employee’s prosecution. The company…
Month: October 2018
California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices
I’m really going to miss California when it falls off into the Pacific some day. Zack Whittaker reports: Good news! California has passed a law banning default passwords like “admin,” “123456” and the old classic “password” in all new consumer electronics starting in 2020. Every new gadget built in the state from routers to smart…
“AlfabetoVirtual” Pleads Guilty To Hacking Websites For The Combating Terrorism Center At West Point And The New York City Comptroller
There’s an update to the case involving Billy Anderson, aka AlfabetoVirtual, who was pretty busy defacing sites for a year or more. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York earlier this week: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BILLY RIBEIRO ANDERSON, a/k/a “Anderson…
BEC-as-a-service offers hacked business accounts for as little as $150
Graham Cluley reports: New research has revealed that business email compromise is being made easier for any criminal to add to their arsenal. Researchers at threat intelligence firm Digital Shadows report that companies don’t even need to be hacked to spill their address books and email archives. Careless backups of email archives on publicly-accessible rsync,…
California court allows lawsuit over breach of HIV patients’ information to move forward
There’s an update on a lawsuit previously noted on this site. John Riley reports: The Superior Court of California has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit on behalf of 93 HIV-positive people, who had their personal information compromised by a data breach of the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program online enrollment system….
Fugitive from Kentucky charged with breaching computer network at Community Health
Jesse Wells reports: A fugitive from Kentucky is accused of illegally logging into the computer network at Community North Hospital. The suspect, Charles Thomas, is now facing several charges of computer trespass and resisting law enforcement. Court records claim he logged into the computer network using stolen credentials from a hospital employee. Read more on…