Grant Baker reports: The personal contact information of Essendon’s most prominent and powerful supporters has been mistakenly emailed to more than 380 members of the club’s past players and officials association. The privacy lapse occurred when data related to coteries including the Essendon Women’s Network, Essendonians, Collins Street Dons, Red & Blacks, Lawdons and the Dick…
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MPs launch ‘TalkTalk’ inquiry over security of personal data online
It looks like the UK’s legislators are following in the footsteps of the Beltway: huff and puff, ask questions, and probably do nothing. Alexander J. Martin reports: Executives at TalkTalk, including CEO Dido Harding herself, may face a grilling from Members of Parliament over the shoddy security practices which led to the theft of than…
Fourth arrest in TalkTalk case
A fourth person has been arrested in connection with the investigation into alleged data theft from TalkTalk. On the evening of Tuesday, 3 November, detectives from the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) and officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) executed a search warrant at an address in Norwich. A 16-year-old boy [D] was…
vBulletin patches and forces password reset as 0day is posted for sale
@Cyber_War_News contributed to this post. vBulletin.com is back online after a breach first reported on DataBreaches.net. In new developments, vBulletin forced a password reset and issued a patch while the 0day used to hack them was put for sale. Password Reset An announcement in their forum last night acknowledged the breach and explains: vBulletin.com Password Reset…
Walmart notifying Niagara customers of potential security breach
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,…
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,…