John Leyden reports: Namesco customers are angry over the domain name and hosting firm’s handling of a security breach that exposed their credit card details. A number of punters’ card details were leaked after hackers broke into Namesco’s systems. The web biz notified these customers as well as advising a larger number of its clients…
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Tit for tat: Israeli and Saudi Arabian hackers dump credit card numbers
Okay, I don’t want to get caught up in this “tit for tat” credit card hacking and dumping that’s going on between individuals from Israel and Saudi Arabia, but given that Saudi banks initially firmly denied any hacks (which I had questioned as no one had said banks had been hacked), I thought this important…
Hacktivism, Friday edition: Dutch sites
An anonymous individual who tweets as @Ingratefully on Twitter has acquired and dumped data from two Dutch sites on Pastebin. Presumably this is in response to ISPs being ordered to block access to Pirate Bay. Pirate Bay has been the target of legal action in a number of countries for the past few years, with…
The merchant strikes back: Cisero’s sues processor and bank over pass-along fines following alleged breach
There’s an interesting lawsuit to watch in Utah. The owner of Cisero’s in Park City is suing their payment processor and bank for deducting money from their account after card issuers fined them over an alleged breach of the restaurant’s system. The case stems from a March 2008 incident. According to Cisero’s, Visa had notified…
Israel’s hacker avengers: We’ve obtained Saudi credit card info
Aviel Magnezi reports: The major credit card information leak, a by-product of the activities of the Saudi hacker who has been sneering over attempts to locate him, has not been ignored. Israeli hackers who spoke to Ynet claimed on Monday that they have managed to lay their hands on the details of thousands of credit…
Cn: SQL Injection Attack Exposes Sina Passwords
Reuters reports: China’s SINA Corp has fixed a vulnerability in one of its websites that allowed unauthorised access to microblogging usernames and passwords, a Chinese web security blog reported. Sina’s question-and-answer website, iask.sina.com.cn, was revealed to have a security loophole that made it easy to uncover Weibo account passwords and usernames, Youxia security blog reported…