The Louisiana House gave final legislative passage Wednesday morning to a bill that would require a woman to receive an obstetrics ultrasound prior to an abortion. Marsha Shuler reports: The House voted 79-0 to send the measure to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s desk for signing into law. Twenty-six representatives did not vote. Senate Bill 528 sponsored…
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Police Arrest 178 in U.S.-Europe Raid on Credit Card ‘Cloning Labs’
Brian Krebs reports: Police have arrested 178 people in Europe and the United States suspected of cloning credit and debit cards in an international scam worth over 20 million euro ($24.52 million), according to a report from Reuters and authorities in Spain. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity
Massive keylogger cache posted to Pastebin.com
Steve Ragan reports: Details for thousands of accounts, from Facebook to PayPal, have surfaced over the weekend on Pastebin.com. The details, which come from keylogging software, appear to have been dumped automatically to the site based on observations from BitDefender, who tipped The Tech Herald off to their existence on Friday. Along with usernames and…
AT&T hit by another data breach
AT&T customers logging into their accounts to pre-order the Apple iPhone 4 reported that they were given access to the account information of other customers. Despite entering their own usernames and passwords, the AT&T system would take them to another user’s account, according to gadget blog Gizmodo, which broke the news. Some users said when…
Hacker Who Exposed AT&T iPad Security Breach Arrested On Felony Possession Charges
Were the Goatse crew wearing white hats, grey hats, or black hats when they exposed the iPad/ATT breach recently? John Brownlee says they did the right thing and comments on the arrest of one of them following the execution of a search warrant related to the breach disclosure: One of the members of the Goatse…
OH: Treasurer’s site exposes taxpayers’ information to hackers
Barbara Carmen reports: Franklin County property owners paying taxes online before Monday’s deadline might have innocently allowed thieves trolling cyberspace to snag checking-account or credit-card numbers. Computer experts installed safeguards in 2001 when the county adopted a second Web address, one thought to be more memorable. But many people were familiar with the old address,…