Joseph Cox reports: Elsevier, the company behind scientific journals such as The Lancet, left a server open to the public internet, exposing user email addresses and passwords. The impacted users include people from universities and educational institutions from across the world. It’s not entirely clear how long the server was exposed or how many accounts…
Month: March 2019
Boxes of documents including possible personal tax information showed up at a Marshall Co. recycling center, investigation underway
Laura Christmas reports from Alabama: Monday morning when employees came to work at a Marshall County recycling center, they found boxes of documents that included people’s personal information in what looked like personal tax documents. Some of the papers had a company name listed: Professional Tax & Accounting, which has three offices in Birmingham, Jasper,…
Desperate to get through to executives, some cybersecurity vendors are resorting to lies and blackmail
This is one of those articles that we all need to read and think about. Kate Fazzini reports: The cybersecurity vendor marketplace is growing so crowded that some companies have been resorting to extreme tactics to get security executives on the phone to pitch their products, including lying about security emergencies and threatening to expose…
Here’s What It’s Like to Accidentally Expose the Data of 230M People
Andy Greenberg reports: Steve Hardigree hadn’t even gotten to the office yet, and his day was already a waking nightmare. As he Googled his company’s name that morning last June, Hardigree found a growing list of headlines pointing to the 10-person marketing firm he’d founded three years earlier, Exactis, as the source of a leak…
Round 4: Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he’s selling on a dark web marketplace. This time, the hacker has put up for sale the data of six companies, totaling 26.42 million…
How Israel’s Iran Hacking Scandal Could Ensure Netanyahu’s Reelection
Anshel Pfeffer reports: From the moment Channel 12 political analyst Amit Segal broke the story Thursday night that the Shin Bet security service had recently informed Kahol Lavan leader and election front-runner Benny Gantz that his personal smartphone had been hacked, it was clear this could be a moment that will define this election campaign….