Update: Xero denied any breach. Graham Cluley reports: Cloud-based accounting service Xero has told its customers to reset their passwords after a “small number” of users had their accounts compromised. At the time of writing there was no obvious advisory on Xero’s website, blog or Twitter account, but news of the security warning was sent out to customers…
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Anons blow Japanese airports off-course in dolphin cull protest
John Leyden reports: Hacktivist collective Anonymous knocked offline two of Japan’s busiest websites in a protest against dolphin killings. Distributed denial-of-service attacks against Tokyo’s Narita airport and Nagoya’s Chubu airport left each largely inaccessible for about eight hours. Flights at both airports were unaffected, the Japan Times reports. Read more on The Register.
NATO, White House hackers tried to pwn MH17 air disaster probe
Shaun Nichols reports: The Pawn Storm hackers who tried to infiltrate NATO and White House networks have been spotted bothering another sensitive target: the team investigating the downed Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight. Researchers at Trend Micro found suspicious SFTP, VPN, and Outlook Web Access servers configured to collect usernames and passwords from officials probing the aircraft disaster. Read…
TalkTalk hack attack: customer data stolen
Belfast Telegraph reports: TalkTalk customers are being warned that personal data including details such as names, address, credit card and bank details, may have been stolen by hackers. “We are aware of a small, but nonetheless significant, number of customers who have been directly targeted by these criminals and we have been supporting them directly,”…
WikiLeaks releases documents from CIA director’s personal AOL account
Sam Thielman reports: WikiLeaks on Wednesday released documents it said had been collected from CIA director John Brennan’s personal AOL account, the first in what the group said would be a series of publications. […] The embarrassing leaks include a questionnaire for the official’s security clearance marked: “Review copy – Do not retain.” Other documents included…
Spy agency: North Korea hackers stole sensitive South Korean data
Elizabeth Shim reports: North Korean hackers stole files from the computers of South Korean lawmakers and hacked into servers at the presidential Blue House, according to Seoul’s spy agency. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said Tuesday government audit data was stolen from three personal computers that belong to members of the National Assembly, Newsis reported….