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Is United Airlines’ Mobile App Secure Enough?

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Dissent

Back in January, United Airlines suspended some Mileage Plus members’ accounts for what they claimed was a breach involving a third party that enabled an attacker to use login credentials to access members’ accounts. Now they may have another problem affecting their Mileage Plus program, it seems. Yosi Dahan of Turrisio writes: During our recent…

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Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Hacked online cheating service AshleyMadison.com is portraying itself as a victim of malicious cybercriminals, but leaked emails from the company’s CEO suggests that AshleyMadison’s top leadership hacked into a competing dating service in 2012. Late last week, the Impact Team — the hacking group that has claimed responsibility for leaking personal data on more than 30 million AshleyMadison users…

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FTC claims victory in Wyndham case; Appellate court upholds authority to enforce data security

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Dissent

Commissioner Julie Brill of the FTC has claimed victory in Wyndham’s appeal in the Third Circuit: Big news: FTC wins Third Circuit Wyndham appeal. Inadequate data security can be unfair under FTC Act & companies have adequate notice. — Julie Brill (@JulieBrillFTC) August 24, 2015 “Big news: FTC wins Third Circuit Wyndham appeal. Inadequate data…

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Privacy Commissioner investigates Ashley Madison data breach, Company offers reward for information

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Dissent

Robin Levinson King reports: Canada’s privacy watchdog says it will investigate the security breach at Toronto-based Ashley Madison after hackers apparently exposed private information about millions of the adultery website’s users. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner “has commenced an investigation into the matter concerning (Ashley Madison owner) Avid Life Media,” spokesperson Valerie Lawton said…

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Ashley Madison search sites like Trustify are harvesting email addresses and spamming searched victims

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Dissent

Troy Hunt writes: To date, I’ve avoided commenting on the other Ashley Madison search services and have invested my efforts purely in keeping Have I been pwned? (HIBP) ticking along. I’ve seen them come and indeed I’ve seen some of them go too. I’ve seen many that enable you to get confirmation about the presence of an…

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50,000 AutoZone customers’ data hacked, exposed (update1)

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Dissent

AutoZone, a leading American retailer of auto parts, has reportedly been hacked by @JM511. This afternoon, JM511 announced the hack of the AutoZonePro.com site on Twitter. The linked paste included 49,967 customers’ details: billing addresses (street and city), email addresses, hashed passwords, telephone numbers, customers’ cities, and dates of birth. Although the passwords were hashed, JM511 provided the password…

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