Randy Ludlow reports: The former president of a prominent Republican political-advertising firm received no prison time on Wednesday for three charges stemming from his dismissal. Nicholas P. Everhart, formerly of Strategy Group for Media, was fined $2,800 and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service by Delaware County Common Pleas Judge David Gormley. He…
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Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked
Dan Goodin reports: When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes’ worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service for people cheating on their romantic partners, there seemed to be one saving grace. User passwords were cryptographically protected using bcrypt, an algorithm so slow and computationally demanding it would literally take centuries…
In: Woman arrested for hacking into ex-employer’s computers
NewKerala.com reports: A 30-year-old woman was arrested on Wednesday for hacking and destroying data on her ex-employer company’s computers, police said. The former employer was not named in the NewKerala reporting, but they noted: Police said there were cookies to access the user-Id of the company in the laptop of the woman, with the help…
More TransformPOS clients possibly affected by security incident? (updated)
Here we go….? On Sept. 1, this blog noted a breach involving a TransformPOS client in Illinois. The client, Village Pizza & Pub, says they learned of the breach on July 27th. Now there may be other, possibly related breach reports in Wisconsin. Negassi Tesfamichael of The Daily Cardinal (a U. Wisconsin-Madison student publication) reports: The UW-Madison Police Department…
AshleyMadison Said to Be Insured by Axis, AIG
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…
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…