I missed this one when it first appeared, but it’s worth posting so that parents can once again remind their kids about online safety. Read the full news story on this one as it provides a lot of details about the hacker convincing the victim to give him the login credentials to her account, and…
Category: Business Sector
Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
Lisa Vaas reports: An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolled through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and torched 23 servers. […] As the Mirror reported during Needham’s January trial, the IT worker was sacked after a month of…
This Spyware Data Leak Is So Bad We Can’t Even Tell You About It
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. A company that sells consumer-grade software that lets customers spy on other people’s calls, messages, and anything they do on their cell phones left more than 95,000…
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
Brian Krebs reports: Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data. Read…
Tesla sues former staff for data theft
Reuters reports: Tesla filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a former engineer at the company, claiming he copied the source code for its Autopilot technology before joining a Chinese self-driving car startup in January. The engineer, Guangzhi Cao, copied more than 300,000 files related to Autopilot source code as he prepared to join China’s Xiaopeng…
Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency discloses data breach affecting 1,100 customers
Jennifer Larino reports: Hartwig Moss Insurance Agency, a fifth-generation New Orleans business on Canal Street, revealed Wednesday (March 20) that a data breach may have exposed personal info for roughly 1,100 customers. The breach involved basic information, including names, birthdates and driver’s license numbers, taken from the company’s insurance accounts, according to a news release….