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Hacker extracts customer data from Canadian Telecom Firm after rebuttal

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Dissent

Waqas writes: A hacker using the alias NullHumanity claims that they have managed to identify a flaw in the customer login system of Freedom Mobile, a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider and claims to obtain private details of customers including their phone number, address, call history and other information effortlessly. The findings were reported by MobileSyrup. The…

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The strange case of the data breach that stayed online for a month

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Dissent

So the headline’s a bit of clickbait as there’s nothing really strange going on, but it’s still a useful reminder situation….. Simon Sharwood and Kat Hall report on a case where someone found a spread sheet exposed/indexed by Google. And although the company believed that they had gotten everything removed, weeks later it was still…

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AMP Global Clearing LLC fined for lax security

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Dissent

A monetary penalty resulted from a misconfigured backup uncovered by Chris Vickery, who was then with Kromtech Security. It was reported publicly in April, 2017 by a number of outlets, including The Daily Dot. This was one of those cases where a vendor’s mistake turned out to be costly.  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)…

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Entergy notifies employees of W-2 breach involving TALX portal

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Dissent

So this is not a W-2 phishing situation, but TALX – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equifax –  is working with Entergy to notify former and current Entergy employees whose 2016 W-2 data may have been acquired by criminals from the TALX portal. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, counsel for TALX…

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Aperio Group client account data breached by successful phishing attack

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Dissent

On January 30, Aperio informed advisors of a data breach that occurred when two employees’ email accounts were compromised by successful phishing attacks that resulted in auto-forwarding email from those accounts to two external accounts. Aperio discovered the problem on January 11, 2018, and their investigation determined that all emails sent to those two accounts between…

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Equifax Hack Might Be Worse Than You Think

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Dissent

AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Hackers in the Equifax Inc. breach accessed more of consumers’ personal information than the company disclosed publicly last year. Equifax said, in a document submitted to the Senate Banking Committee and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that cyberthieves accessed records across numerous tables in its systems that included such data as…

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