BBC reports: B&Q says it has taken action after being told that it exposed details of suspected store thieves to the net without password protection. The matter was brought to light by a security researcher last week. He said the DIY chain had taken the data offline, but was unable to get a response from…
Month: January 2019
Authorities shut down xDedic marketplace for buying hacked servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The FBI, together with authorities from several European countries, have seized the domain and servers of xDedic, a notorious online marketplace where cyber-criminals would sell and buy access to hacked servers. Three suspects were also arrested in Ukraine. The site has been around since 2014, but it became widely known after a…
Data of 14,200 Singapore patients with HIV leaked online by American fraudster who was deported from here
Chang AI-Lien reports: Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Ministry of Health revealed on Monday (Jan 28). Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 onward before being…
Japanese government plans to hack into citizens’ IoT devices
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Japanese government approveda law amendment on Friday that will allow government workers to hack into people’s Internet of Things devices as part of an unprecedented survey of insecure IoT devices. The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision…
LocalBitcoins Has Been Hacked
Mary Kihoro reports: LocalBitcoins, a peer to peer Bitcoin exchange trading platform, has announced that its site has been exposed to a security breach from unknown third parties. However, as of now the team has managed to stop the attack and re-enabled outbound transactions. The platform is currently assessing the number users that have been…
Data leak: Breach too far
NST reports: IT has happened again. This time at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) where records of just over a million students have been leaked. Is it an inside job? Hard to tell, but UiTM is probing. UiTM sources contacted by the New Straits Times say it may just be put together from multiple sources by…