John Leyden of The Register reports that the EC-Council sent out a notification to its members about the February breach noted previously on this blog. Here’s the full text of their message: On Saturday, February 22nd, 2014, the ICANN-accredited domain registrar of EC-Council was compromised and as a result, EC-Council suffered a DNS Poisoning attack,…
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Loyaltybuild reopens for business after huge data breach
Elaine Edwards reports: The company at the centre of the biggest data breach ever dealt with in Ireland has recommenced trading and said it had invested €500,000 in new security systems after the criminal attack last year. Ennis-based Loyaltybuild, which provides services to companies running holiday break promotions, was hit by the breach late last year and it…
University of Maryland data breach smaller than first thought
WBAL reports: The data breach at the University of Maryland is smaller than first announced. According to the university’s website, there were 287,580 records breached, about 21,499 fewer than first reported. But here’s the better-late-than-never news of note: The school said 78 percent of the records in the affected database have now been permanently purged,…
NoMoreRack.com Probes Possible Card Breach
For the second time since Aug. 2013, online retailer NoMoreRack.com has hired a computer forensics team after being notified by Discover about a potential breach of customer card data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Seattle Archdiocese, FBI investigating data breach (update- may affect 90,000)
John Langeler reports: Most people would enjoy getting a $7,000 check in the mail. In the case of one West Seattle man, all the check indicated was his identity had been stolen. “The check had my Social Security Number on it as well as another woman’s name,” he said, asking us not to release his name,…
Security firm report says Target data hack was low tech
Jennifer Bjorhus reports: The U.S. Secret Service has called the criminals behind Target Corp.’s monster security breach well-organized, “highly technical” and “sophisticated.” But cybersecurity firm McAfee Inc. said in a report out Monday that the heist was anything but exotic, describing the attack as a Breach 101 operation. The thieves used easily modified off-the-shelf malware, common methods…