From the how-many-people-were-in-there dept., Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Russian hackers, using spear-phishing attacks, successfully breached the network of Sony Pictures Entertainment in November 2014, and continue to have on-demand access to Sony’s network, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Taia Global. But it’s not clear if those hackers unleashed the malware attack and data…
Category: Business Sector
Banks: Card Thieves Hit White Lodging Again
Ouch. Brian Krebs reports: For the second time in a year, multiple financial institutions are complaining of fraud on customer credit and debit cards that were all recently used at a string of Marriott properties run by hotel franchise firm White Lodging Services Corporation. White Lodging says it is investigating, but that so far it has found no signs…
Appeal of dismissal of Neiman Marcus lawsuit heard by Seventh Circuit
After the proposed class action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus (Remijas v. Neiman Marcus) was tossed in September for lack of standing (opinion and order), the plaintiffs appealed. The Seventh Circuit heard oral argument on the standing issue on January 23. You can listen to the audio (about 32 minutes) here. The court will issue its ruling at…
LinkedIn’s Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has tentatively approved LinkedIn’s $1.25 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2012 data breach. “The settlement agreement falls within the range of possible approval as fair, reasonable, adequate, and in the best interests of the class,” U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in the Northern District…
And then I stumbled across these hacks by Zyklon
Seen on Pastebin, dated January 15: Hacked By Zyklon #Wonkasec WonkaSec Temp Homepage: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/Index%285%29.html Twitter: http://twitter.com/zyclonb4u Website Hacked: http://soviethistory.macalester.edu Very small portion of the accounts, the other 90,000+ will be posted here: http://trippletoaster.freeiz.com/DbDump.php The accounts with .edu emails are most likely professors, if you are in college…
Ex-RadioShack worker accused of stealing nude phone photos
Henry Lee reports: A former RadioShack employee in Corte Madera appeared in court Monday on charges that he stole revealing cell phone photos from a woman who had brought her phone in to fix a cracked screen. Jose Robert Miranda, 24, of Richmond did not enter a plea to a felony charge of theft and…