Newstalk610 reports an update to the PNI Digital Media breach that impacted photo centers at a number of chain retailers: Some Niagara customers who had photos printed at Walmart are getting emails telling them their financial information may have been breached. Back in July, Walmart Canada disabled its online Photo Centre website as a precaution,…
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The Hacking Team Defectors
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bichhierai has a good piece about members of the Hacking Team who left, and what happened afterwards. Here’s a teaser from it: His name is Alberto Pelliccione. Until last year, he was the man responsible for developing Hacking Team’s Android spyware, and one of the employees who had worked on the company’s marquee product,…
TalkTalk data being used to con seniors
A caution from the Daily Mail: In the past week, many pensioners have told the Daily Mail how they have fallen victim to conmen pretending to be from TalkTalk. They often claim to be offering compensation for the data breach before asking for victims’ bank account details. Last night a senior cyber-crime officer warned: ‘The…
vBulletin, Foxit Software forums hacked by Coldzer0; hundreds of thousands of users’ info stolen
This post was co-authored with @Cyber_War_News. Some days we scratch our heads at the folks who proudly claim hacks and then give law enforcement enough evidence to go after them. And then this happened: #vBulletin 5.x.x hacked by Coldzer0 today. Licences & database dumped, shell on server. vBulletin denied. #0day #security #zeroday — Terry Tran (@terryjunx) November…
PageFair breach disclosure
Here’s an example of how to timely detect and disclose a breach transparently. Halloween Security Breach By Sean Blanchfield PageFair security breach has been resolved – here is what you need to know. Update 1 – 21:30 GMT November 1, 2015 Core Facts If you are a publisher using our free analytics service, you have good…
Mac-Torrents hacked, user info leaked
HaveIBeenPwned.com reports: In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt. Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames