Brian Krebs reports: Avanti Markets, a company whose self-service payment kiosks sit beside shelves of snacks and drinks in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America, has suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to those payment devices, the company has acknowledged. The breach may have jeopardized…
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Massive WWE Leak Exposes 3 Million Wrestling Fans’ Addresses, Ethnicities And More
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: WWE fans take note: an IT error may have left your personal information open to anyone, including addresses, educational background, earnings and ethnicity. Earlier this week, Bob Dyachenko, from security firm Kromtech, told Forbes he’d uncovered a huge, unprotected WWE database containing information on more than 3 million users, noting it was open…
Pakistani Man Sentenced for Laundering Millions in Telecom Hacking Scheme
A massive international hacking and telecommunications fraud scheme served as a backdrop for an FBI investigation that led to the capture of a Pakistani citizen who played a major role in scamming U.S. companies out of millions of dollars in fees. From November 2008 to December 2012, Muhammad Sohail Qasmani laundered more than $19.6 million…
Agra police cracks international phishing case in record two days, recovers Rs 28 lakh
Ankit Misra posts: In a major international anti-cybercrime crackdown, the Agra police has recovered Rs 28 lakh from England-based hackers, an amount they looted by phishing a footwear exporter from the city. Working in collaboration with the British police, the Agra police achieved this breakthrough in a record two days’ time. Talking to India Today,…
He left the company, but didn’t go away. Now, he’s going away for seven years.
David J. Neal reports on the sentencing of Jonathan Eubanks: A former Davie resident got seven years in federal prison for bedeviling Navarro Security Group with computer attacks after he resigned from the company. Attacks such as rerouting visitors to the company website to another security firms site. Or, deleting all the files on a company…
The AA Exposed Emails, Credit Card Data, and Didn’t Inform Customers
Joseph Cox reports: Last week rumours of a potentially serious data breach at UK car insurance company the AA circulated in the security research community. In response, the AA’s customer support Twitter account downplayed those fears, and told users that their data remained secure. However, an exposed server contained sensitive information on over 100,000 AA…