Darren Pauli reports: Former password collector Steve Thomas plans to tear up the contact broker market by offering a database of 30 million names for free, all built on data sourced by scraping the web. The former PwnedList founder, and now SalesMaple CEO, says the database will soon to balloon to almost 100 million records….
Category: Hack
Manchester car park lock hack leads to horn-blare hoo-ha
John Leyden reports: Vehicles across an entire car park in Manchester had their locks jammed on Sunday as the apparent result of a botched criminally-motivated hack. No one at the Manchester Fort Shopping Park, in north Manchester, was able to lock their car’s doors on Sunday evening as a result of the attack by persons as-yet…
Login system supplies fake passwords to hackers
Jeremy Kirk reports: A team of researchers has developed a system that makes it much harder for hackers to obtain usable passwords from a leaked database, which could help blunt the damage from a data breach. The system is described in a research paper that has been submitted for consideration at the 2015 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,…
Female hacker arraigned for hacking and bank fraud in Lagos
Last month, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the arraignment of an individual on charges of hacking a bank. This week, they announce an arraignment in a second hacking case: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday May 14, 2015 arraigned one Mary Ozala before Justice Kudirat. A. Jose of the Lagos State High…
Airplane hacking panic! Why it’s a surely a storm in a teacup
There has been much media coverage of Chris Robert’s alleged claims about controlling an airplane in-flight. I haven’t bothered to link to them as they generally just re-hash what is already known and not known. But Iain Thomson got a more detailed response from those who are skeptical about Roberts’ claims: At last year’s…
St. Louis Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach
Brian Krebs reports: The St. Louis Federal Reserve today sent a message to the banks it serves alerting them that in late April 2015 attackers succeeded in hijacking the domain name servers for the institution. The attack redirected Web searches and queries for those seeking a variety of domains run by the government entity to a Web page…