The headline in the Daily Mail basically says it all: British teenager hacks North Korea’s newly-launched Facebook site after guessing the login and password were set to ‘admin’ and ‘password’ Well almost all. Note that this is not Facebook’s site but a Facebook clone called phpDolphin. Even so…
Category: Business Sector
If you haven’t enabled the chip reader yet, fraudulent charges may not be reimbursed
I’m not really surprised by a story I read today, as I go to a lot of businesses that tell me they still haven’t enabled the chip reader on their Point of Sale (POS) systems, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a report of a business penalized it for it by a bank….
Danish Authorities Investigate OkCupid Incident
Joseph Cox reports the follow-up to a breach that I covered on PogoWasRight.org. The breach involved a Danish grad student dumping OkCupid users’ personal and sensitive info in a data set for “research” purposes, claiming it was “public” data. They had neither sought nor obtained consent to scrape the user database, and although they did not include…
Pacific Gas and Electric database exposed; Company claims data “fake”
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has reported on yet another misconfigured database. This one belongs to PG& E in California. Whether the database contains real data or not is something the Department of Homeland Security should investigate, as the company tells Chris the data are “fake,” and Chris does not believe them, partly because entities…
ZA: MTN exposing subscribers’ personal details online
When accessing their bills online, MTN clients are being shown the bills of other subscribers. This is according to a subscriber who told MyBroadband he was able to see thousands of bills that weren’t his own. He logged in as normal on MTN’s e-billing site, received a one-time PIN, and accessed the client portal – which…
Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals
Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: On May 12, Tumblr revealed that it had just found out about a 2013 data breach affecting “a set” of users’ email addresses and passwords, but the company refused to reveal how many users were affected. As it turns out, that number is 65 million, according to an independent analysis of the data. Troy…