Sonali Basak, Gerrit De Vynck, and Tracy Alloway report: American International Group Inc. and Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. are among insurers for the company that owns AshleyMadison.com, the adultery website hacked in a breach that exposed more than 37 million users, people familiar with the policies said. AIG provided directors-and-officers coverage, while Axis insured the…
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WhatsApp security flaw could have hijacked users’ computers, just by knowing their phone numbers
Graham Cluley writes: We all know that the WhatsApp messaging service is available for smartphones – there are hundreds of millions of mobile users of the service. But some people want to have WhatsApp conversations on their desktop computer rather than their smartphone – and that’s why the Facebook-owned service has WhatsApp Web. From WhatsApp Web…
NC: Hair meant for donations to kids with cancer found in dumpster with donors’ info (updated)
The Gaston Gazette reports that hair donated to support Wigs for Kids, a charity in Ohio supporting kids battling cancer, was tossed out in North Carolina – along with the donors’ personal information: Some customers who got their hair cut for charity at a Great Clips in Gastonia are upset that their donations and their…
Pastor outed on Ashley Madison commits suicide
CNN reports: John Gibson was a pastor and seminary professor. When he wasn’t teaching at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, one of his favorite pastimes was fixing cars. He was married with two children. His daughter, Callie, was teaching in front of 250 college students when she got the call. Her father had killed himself….
It Was A HOAX! Evidence Shows Ashley Madison Hacker Statements, Details Were All Faked – Gina Smith
So… was the claimed Ashley Madison breach a hoax? Gina Smith argues that it was. Or she’s pulling her own hoax to see how susceptible journalists are. So far, she hasn’t really presented any evidence to support claims which she outlines in this post. Smith writes, in part: Through doxens of interviews with Avid and…
Credentials stored in Ashley Madison’s source code might have helped attackers
Lucian Constantin reports that ongoing examination of the AshleyMadison source code data dump contains evidence that ALM was er…. sloppy: … A London-based security consultant named Gabor Szathmari has now found evidence that ALM’s developers were careless with sensitive credentials, which might have helped attackers once they gained a foothold on the company’s network. In the…