Mary Pat Flaherty, Jason Samenow and Lisa Rein Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping and scores of other crucial uses, officials said. The intrusion occurred in late September but officials gave no indication that they had a problem until Oct. 20,…
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BrowserStack analysis: unpatched inactive machine compromised by shellshock vulnerability
BrowserStack sent DataBreaches.net the following analysis, which is being emailed to all their users: As you may already know, BrowserStack experienced an attack on 9th November, 2014 at 23:30 GMT during which an individual was able to gain unauthorized access to some of our users’ registered email addresses. He then tried to send an email…
Hacked Employees File Charges Against Postal Service
Eric Katz reports: The American Postal Workers Union filed a complaint on Monday to the National Labor Relations Board for the Postal Service’s failure to adequately consult with the group over the security failure. APWU President Mark Dimondstein said USPS should have bargained with the union over the “impact of the security breach.” “We are demanding…
Eastern Iowa Airport reveals customer data breach
AP reports: The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids is revealing a data breach that may compromise the credit card information of customers who paid to park there. The airport said Tuesday that customers who used credit and debit cards to pay for public parking between Sept. 29 and Oct. 29 are at risk and…
AMMO TO GO’S remarkable response to data breach
Nasir Pasha, Esq. writes: Earlier this month, AmmoToGo.com, an online ammunition retailer, sent out an e-mail to customers disclosing the theft of consumer information including e-mail addresses and passwords. The e-mail provided a link to a password reset page and offered assistance to stop possible SPAM from anyone who might have purchased the list. It’s a remarkably pro-active…
For Guccifer, Hacking Was Easy. Prison Is Hard.
Andrew Higgins reports: He reveled in tormenting members of the Bush family, Colin L. Powell and a host of other prominent Americans, and also in outfoxing the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, foiling their efforts to discover even his nationality, never mind his identity. Early this year, however, the elusive online outlaw known as Guccifer…