A federal grand jury sitting in St. Louis, Missouri, indicted a St. Louis resident on mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges relating to a scheme to steal public school employees’ IDs and use them to file federal tax returns. According to the indictment returned on Feb. 1 and unsealed yesterday, Kevin K. Williams stole…
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Clusters f**ked: Insecure Hadoop file systems wiped by miscreants
Thomas Claburn reports: Administrators of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters have evidently not heeded warnings that surfaced last month about securing software with insecure default settings. Attacks on Hadoop clusters have wiped the data of at least 165 installations, according to GDI Foundation security researchers Victor Gevers, Niall Merrigan, and Matt Bromiley. The trio report that…
Fast Food Chain Arby’s Acknowledges Breach at Hundreds of Locations
Brian Krebs reports: Sources at nearly a half-dozen banks and credit unions independently reached out over the past 48 hours to inquire if I’d heard anything about a data breach at Arby’s fast-food restaurants. Asked about the rumors, Arby’s told KrebsOnSecurity that it recently remediated a breach involving malicious software installed on payment card systems at hundreds of…
Hacker steals 83,000 accounts from UPI news agency
Patrick O’Neill reports: A hacker is selling a database supposedly containing 83,000 compromised accounts from UPI.com, the website of the 110-year-old American news agency United Press International. After being contacted by CyberScoop, UPI alerted its entire email subscriber base Tuesday and removed login pages and entire sections of its website. Read more on CyberScoop.
Mag publisher Future stored your FileSilo passwords in plaintext. Then hackers hit
Shaun Nichols reports: UK magazine publisher Future’s FileSilo website has been raided by hackers, who have made off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords. FileSilo.co.uk is a website Future’s mag subscribers can log into to download materials, such as Photoshop templates and graphics, for tutorials published in its print titles. Future is responsible…
Loblaw, Canadian Tire respond to breach reports
Aleksandra Sagan reports: Loblaw is warning PC Plus rewards collectors to beef up their passwords after points were stolen from some members’ accounts. “We are treating this as a breach as individual member accounts were accessed and points were stolen,” said Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, in a statement. Meanwhile, Global News reported…