Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP write: In its recent decision in Nat’l Fire Ins. Co. v. E. Mishan & Sons, Inc., 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 10151 (2d Cir. June 1, 2016), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, applying New York law, had occasion to consider the application of an exclusion…
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uTorrent forums hacked, change your passwords
Ernesto writes: The uTorrent community forums have been hacked, exposing the private details of hundreds of thousands of users. The hackers were able to get their hands on the user database, and a warning issued by the software maker says that passwords should be considered compromised. With well over 150 million active users a month…
Info on international students and hosting families exposed in misconfigured database
It may be hard to resist naming a database after a favorite movie, but a database named “Coruscant” caught a researcher’s eye when the researcher was searching Shodan.io for exposed databases. And the rest, as they say, well… read on. The Cambridge Institute of International Education (CIIE) is a Boston-based educational consulting firm whose mission is to boost the…
Woman charged with altering and stealing computer files from Cree
WRAL reports: A Cary woman has been charged with illegally accessing and altering computer files at Durham-based LED manufacturer Cree Inc., according to an arrest warrant. Huili Cui, 50, of 521 Denhoff Drive, is charged with felony accessing computers and larceny by employee. She was initially held in the Durham County jail under a $1…
100 million accounts for VK, Russia’s Facebook, show up on dark web
Joseph Cox reports: Accounts for over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being traded on the digital underground. Breach notification site LeakedSource obtained the data and published an analysis on Sunday. The hacker known as Peace, meanwhile, listed the data for sale on a dark web marketplace. […] Peace provided Motherboard…
Banks: Credit Card Breach at CiCi’s Pizza
Brian Krebs reports: CiCi’s Pizza, an American fast food business based in Coppell, Texas with more than 500 stores in 35 states, appears to be the latest restaurant chain to struggle with a credit card breach. The data available so far suggests that hackers obtained access to card data at affected restaurants by posing as technical…