Andy Greenberg reports: Of all the mysteries and injustices of the McDonald’s ice cream machine, the one that Jeremy O’Sullivan insists you understand first is its secret passcode. Press the cone icon on the screen of the Taylor C602 digital ice cream machine, he explains, then tap the buttons that show a snowflake and a milkshake…
Category: Business Sector
Social-Media Data Leaks Draw Scrutiny From European Regulators
Catherine Stupp reports: Facebook Inc., Clubhouse and Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn have stressed that recently reported data leaks involved information from public user profiles, not from security breaches. In the European Union, where privacy laws require businesses to protect even publicly available personal data, that distinction may not relieve them of responsibility. Read more on WSJ.
Cyber agency asks Indian FB users to enhance account privacy after global data leak
The Tribune reports: Country’s cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global ‘data scraping’ incident in the social media platform was detected that affected about 61 lakh Indians. “As the Facebook platform evolves and grows, parts of your account could be public. Data could also…
Geico admits fraudsters stole customers’ driver’s license numbers for months
Zack Whittaker reports: Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has fixed a security bug that let fraudsters steal customers’ driver’s license numbers from its website. In a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general’s office, Geico said information gathered from other sources was used to “obtain unauthorized access to your driver’s…
Codecov discloses 2.5-month-long supply chain attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Codecov, a software company that provides code testing and code statistics solutions, disclosed on Thursday a major security breach after a threat actor managed to breach its platform and add a credentials harvester to one of its tools. The impacted product is named Bash Uploader and allows Codecov customers to submit code coverage reports…
Phone House Spain hit by Babuk ransomware, 3 million users affected.
Marco A. DeFelice reports: Before the news became public, SuspectFile had tried in vain to contact Phone House Spain already on Friday morning informing them that, in the event of non-payment of the ransom of 6 million dollars (just over 97 bitcoins at the exchange rate of Friday 16 April ed) and that the following day ( Saturday 17…