Sean O’Neill reports: A computer expert discovered a vulnerability in one of the systems used by travel distribution company Amadeus, which said it had fixed the issue and that none of the data was misused. Alp, an Israel-based travel subsidiary, is an online service used by Israeli travel agents and governmental travel agency Inbal to…
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Two former employees booked for stealing data from their former company
More rogue employees. This time, at Specality Polyfilm Pvt Ltd. Read more at: Times of India.
Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data
Paul Kunert reports: The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications has been hacked and used in phishing scams. The company, one of Europe’s largest resellers, counts some of the biggest names in financial services among its corporate client base, and sells to a raft of local…
Shubert Organization Suffers Data Breach
Marc Hershberg reports: Someone snuck into the Shubert Organization. According to a letter mailed to certain customers, Shubert executives came across some suspicious activity on an employee’s email account last February, and teamed up with some forensic experts to investigate what was happening. The probe found that someone had gained access to several employee’s email…
Redtail CRM Data Breach May Have Exposed FA Client Info
Financial Advisor IQ reports: Some financial advisors using Redtail Technology’s client relationship management software may have had their clients’ personal data exposed on the internet, according to news reports. Redtail told affected advisors in an email that it learned on March 4 about a data breach that led to its logging systems capturing some investor…
Two more Microsoft zero-days uploaded on GitHub
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A security researcher going online by the pseudonym of SandboxEscaper has published today demo exploit code for two more Microsoft zero-days after releasing a similar fully-working exploit the day before. These two mark the sixth and seventh zero-days impacting Microsoft products this security researcher has published in the past ten months, with…