From CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield: On May 20, 2015, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) announced that the company has been the target of a sophisticated cyberattack. The attackers gained limited, unauthorized access to a single CareFirst database. This was discovered as a part of the company’s ongoing Information Technology (IT) security efforts in the wake of…
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Cn: Hacker jailed for linking school website to pornography pages
Ke Jiayun reports: A hacker who gained control of a middle school’s website in Chongming County and linked it to pornography pages was sentenced to 10 months in jail for illegally controlling computers, Chongming County People’s Court said today in Shanghai. The man began hacking into systems three years ago and had broken into dozens…
Telstra-owned Pacnet hit by major data breach
David Ramli reports: Australia’s leading cyber-spies have joined the hunt for hackers who broke into Telstra’s Asian subsidiary Pacnet in an attack affecting thousands of customers including The Australian Federal Police, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other government agencies. Telstra on Wednesday revealed that an unknown third-party had gained complete access to Pacnet’s corporate network including emails and…
Hacker data dumps scrape to make huge grey marketing database
Darren Pauli reports: Former password collector Steve Thomas plans to tear up the contact broker market by offering a database of 30 million names for free, all built on data sourced by scraping the web. The former PwnedList founder, and now SalesMaple CEO, says the database will soon to balloon to almost 100 million records….
Manchester car park lock hack leads to horn-blare hoo-ha
John Leyden reports: Vehicles across an entire car park in Manchester had their locks jammed on Sunday as the apparent result of a botched criminally-motivated hack. No one at the Manchester Fort Shopping Park, in north Manchester, was able to lock their car’s doors on Sunday evening as a result of the attack by persons as-yet…
Login system supplies fake passwords to hackers
Jeremy Kirk reports: A team of researchers has developed a system that makes it much harder for hackers to obtain usable passwords from a leaked database, which could help blunt the damage from a data breach. The system is described in a research paper that has been submitted for consideration at the 2015 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference,…