Steve Ragan reports: A carder forum is advertising a special deal to VIP members. The website claims to possess more than 150 million logins, from a number of services including Netflix and Uber. The source of this data collection are the accounts exposed due to a recent problem on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. But is this on…
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Security lapse exposed New York airport’s critical servers for a year
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at a New York international airport left its server backups exposed on the open internet for almost a year, ZDNet has found. The internet-connected storage drive contained several backup images of servers used by Stewart International Airport, but neither the backup drive nor the disk images were password protected, allowing…
Credit card, personal info targeted in Hawaii tour company hack
HNN reports: Roberts Hawaii is warning customers about a security breach that may affect customers who purchased tours from July 2015 to December 2016. The tour company found out about the hack after getting reports of fraudulent charges on customers’ credit cards. The charges appeared shortly after the customers made purchases on Roberts Hawaii’s website….
Hampton Jitney alerts customers of data security breach Friday
Kelly Zegers reports: Hampton Jitney customers received an email early Friday alerting them to a security breach that may have compromised personal information stored with the company and were advised to change their passwords, according to a copy of the email. The incident was discovered Wednesday, the email from Hampton Jitney President Geoffrey Lynch said….
Yahoo responds to Senators’ questions about breaches
Yahoo has responded to the letter sent by Republican Senators John Thune, Commerce Committee Chairman, and Jerry Moran, Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security Subcommittee Chairman. The letter had been sent because the senators felt they weren’t getting enough cooperation from the firm. You can read Yahoo’s response here (pdf). See what you think. The firm…
Cloudbleed: Big web brands leaked crypto keys, personal secrets thanks to Cloudflare bug
Iain Thomson reports: Big-name websites leaked people’s private session keys and personal information into strangers’ browsers, due to a Cloudflare bug uncovered by Google security researchers. Cloudflare helps companies spread their websites and online services across the internet. Due to a programming blunder, for several months Cloudflare’s systems slipped random chunks of server memory into…