Posted Red Hat on September 17: Last week, Red Hat investigated an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com), which were hosted on a computer system outside of Red Hat infrastructure. download.inktank.com provided releases of the Red Hat Ceph product for Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems. Those product versions…
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Anonymous Defaces Local News Weeklies, Threatens Further Action
Bea Karnes reports: Hackers took control of the five news websites of Embarcadero Media Group on Thursday night, according to the media outlet. The websites of Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac, Mountain View Voice and Pleasanton Weekly were all reportedly attacked at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Embarcadero Media took the websites — PaloAltoOnline.com, mv-voice.com, almanacnews.com, pleasantonweekly.com, and danvillesanramon.com — down while…
Texas hits leak researcher with Civil Investigative Demand for Systema Software’s leaked data
There’s a bit of an unusual development to an incident that was first reported on DataBreaches.net. As reported previously, The leak of data on AWS from Systema Software impacted numerous individuals who filed insurance claims – primarily in California, Kansas, and Utah. In addition to personal and financial information, the leak also exposed proprietary information such as legal…
7th Circuit Declines En Banc Rehearing in Neiman Marcus Data Breach Ruling
Jody Godoy reports: The Seventh Circuit declined to rehear an appeal it decided against Neiman Marcus over a payment card data breach on Thursday, leaving in place the precedential ruling that held plaintiffs can sue for the trouble and expense of preventing fraud on their accounts. The ruling will allow the suit in Illinois federal court, which…
Iron Tiger Campaign Stolen ‘Terabytes’ of Data in APAC and US
Phil Muncaster reports: Security researchers have discovered another advanced China-based targeted attack campaign which shifted its focus from APAC targets in 2013 to steal up to terabytes of data from hi-tech US government contractors. “Emissary Panda” or “Threat Group-3390 (TG-3390)” launched its Iron Tiger campaign in 2010, spying on political targets and government agencies in…
Wyndham Case May Mean Uncertainty for New Payment Providers
Kery Murakami reports: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts LLC’s appeal of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against the hotel chain for alleged lax data protection practices is being watched closely by banking officials who say it could lead to uncertainty over cybersecurity regulations for emerging technologies such as mobile wallets and digital payments. The case…