Graham Cluley reports: Experiencing a problem logging into GoToMyPC? There’s a reason for that. Your password has been reset by Citrix, the company which runs GoToMyPC.com, after hackers reportedly attacked the service. Read more on GrahamCluley.com. I wonder what the “very sophisticated password attack” was.
Category: Business Sector
How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” Of Palantir
William Alden reports: Palantir Technologies has cultivated a reputation as perhaps the most formidable data analysis firm in Silicon Valley, doing secretive work for defense and intelligence agencies as well as Wall Street giants. But when Palantir hired professional hackers to test the security of its own information systems late last year, the hackers found…
Military families victimized by a McDonald’s employee taking orders
Margaret Kavanagh reports: Purchasing some fast food turned into a big problem for some people in Norfolk. Right now a former McDonald’s employee is facing 5 felony charges, accused of skimming credit cards from customers. Police said the vast majority of victims are either in the military or related to someone in the military because…
Screwing up the basics of incident response, Friday edition
For today’s object lesson (and maybe abject lesson), I give you FIS Global and Guaranty Bank and Trust. I’ve written up the incident in more detail over on the Daily Dot, but the short version is a hacker (@1×0123) found a vulnerability in FIS Global’s client portal login and tweeted about it. FIS didn’t respond to him directly. Instead, they…
Cryptocurrency-Backed Venture Capital Fund Hacked; Ether Plunges
Olga Kharif reports: Hackers moved some digital money from the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, a cryptocurrency-backed venture capital fund, sending the price of ether — the virtual currency underlying the project — plunging. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, which supports ether, asked exchanges in a Reddit post to “please pause ETH and DAO trading, deposits and withdrawals until further notice,”…
BesaMafia hitman site hacked again
Remember when BesaMafia, a dark web site where people can allegedly hire hitmen was hacked and data was dumped in May? What could be worse, right? Well, they could be hacked again and their data dumped again. The hacker known as “bRpsd” has again embarrassed the site, which claims to be linked to the Albanian Mafia, by…