A costly consequence of security breaches. Ben Butler reports: Corporate raider Nicholas Bolton has lost his legal battle with internet domain-name regulator auDA over a security breach at his domain-name business. On Monday, auDa will take over about 10,000 customers who registered domain names through Mr Bolton’s company, Australian Style. The transfer can go ahead…
Author: Dissent
NZ: I know what you ate last summer
Patrick Gray writes: The online customer database of a New Zealand-headquartered pizza store chain has been compromised. Risky.Biz understands multiple intruders have compromised Hell Pizza’s 400mb database. While it does not contain any credit card information, it does contain in excess of 230,000 rows of customer entries. The company operates 64 stores in New Zealand,…
Baidu lawsuit against domain register approved
Chinese search engine Baidu can proceed with negligence claims against its domain register following a hacking attack, a US judge has ruled. The claims arose from an attack in January on Register.com by a group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army. Baidu alleges the hackers had contacted Register claiming to be Baidu employees and…
NZ: Hell – The Right Approach to a Data Breach
BarneyC writes: There are any number of approaches to data breaches in business today. Whilst regulation is ever trying to get to the point where notification of breach is mandatory there are still plenty of businesses out there who will go to all sorts of lengths to sweep things under the carpet rather than own…
Grand jury indicts five in identity theft scheme
A federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment against five people charging them with conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a credit card identity theft scheme, U. S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. said Thursday. Charged are Jia Ming Huang, Rungen Huang, Zhen Qiang Liang, Chang Keng Zheng, also known as Yu Zheng, and…
Se: Card-skimming devices found at H&M stores
Several H&M stores in Sweden have discovered so-called skimming devices on their card readers in Linköping, Täby, Löddeköpinge and Malmö. The stores have since made police reports. On Wednesday morning, staff discovered a skimming device on the card reader at one of the counters at the store in the Mobilia mall in Malmö. Anyone who…