A costly reminder of the need to patch and update promptly. Geoff Ziezulewicz reports: Hackers were able to break into Naperville’s computer network in an unprecedented 2012 cyber attack because of a vulnerability in the city’s web software that had not been patched, even though an alert and update had been released roughly a month…
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TalkTalk hacker ‘looking for money;’ ransom demand received
BBC reports: The head of TalkTalk says she has had an email demanding a ransom from a group purporting to be behind the cyber-attack suffered by the company. Chief executive Dido Harding said she did not know whether the ransom email was genuine. The phone and broadband provider said personal and banking details of up…
Update: TalkTalk Hacked: 4M Customer Records Stolen In Attack Linked To Islamic Cyberterrorism
David Gilbert reports: TalkTalk, the U.K.-based telecoms company, has admitted that it has suffered its third major cyberattack in the last 12 months with data from its 4 million customers compromised by hackers in a “significant and sustained attack” on its website. In the wake of the admission by TalkTalk, the company’s shares on the London Stock…
Online accounting software Xero tells users to reset passwords, after accounts breached (UPDATED)
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…
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…