In January, I talked about high-profile websites, which had been hacked to redirect users to fake online stores. One unique aspect of the hack was the fact that the attackers had set up additional web servers on non-standard ports. Most of the domains I listed in the post were cleaned up pretty quickly. Three months…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Aussie data breaches doubled in 2011
Darren Pauli reports: The number of Australian data breaches reported to forensic investigators has already doubled those experienced in 2010, even though it’s only April. Some of the worst breaches have cost businesses many hundreds of thousands of dollars, and involved significant loss of credit card information and customer information. Yet it seems that none…
Data breach notification fatigue: Do consumers (eventually) tune out?
George V. Hulme writes: Earlier this month more than 50 companies were involved in a massive heist of names and email addresses from Epsilon Interactive. With millions of customers of companies such as Best Buy, Brookestone, Dell, Marriott and many others affected, the question is being raised: are so many breach notifications from so many…
The Epsilon Hack Attack: Time For “SOX For Consumers”?
Matt Pauker of Voltage Security discusses the Epsilon breach and where we go from here. He writes, in part: What about requiring every third-party service provider to protect personal customer data through encryption, tokenization or another advanced security technology, through clauses written into and enforced as part of standard service level agreements? This is something…
Epsilon a Victim of Spear-Phishing Attack, Says Report (update/correction)
Jaikumar Vijayan follows up on the news story by iTnews, mentioned earlier today, which reported that the Epsilon attack was a spear-phishing attack that resulted in the downloading of malware. Jai makes a point of noting, however, that there’s no proof or confirmation yet from Epsilon that this was a spear-phishing attack. As I commented earlier today,…
Epsilon breach used four-month-old attack
Brett Winterford writes: … Today iTnews can reveal that Epsilon has been aware of the vulnerability behind this attack for some months. In late November, Epsilon partner ReturnPath – which provides monitoring and authentication services to email service providers – warned customers about a series of coordinated phishing and hacking attacks levelled at the mailing…