Annie Youderian reports: A second member of the hacking group LulzSec was sentenced Thursday to one year and one day in federal prison for his role in a computer attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Raynaldo Rivera, 21, of Chandler, Ariz., also must serve 13 months of home detention, perform 1,000 hours of community service and pay…
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Smartphone Experts notifies customers of hack (Update 5)
From the this-doesn’t-sound-good dept.: Smartphone Experts discovered that the system used for customer payments for online shopping had been hacked. Although stored customer data were encrypted, Diana Kingree, the Senior Vice President of Commerce, noted that the hacker may have been able to use a decryption feature of the system to view customers’ names, addresses,…
Banking information for City of Nanaimo customers safe from big security breach
Darrell Bellaart reports: The City of Nanaimo says customer banking information is safe from a security breach that affected other municipalities that use the same online bill-paying software. On Friday, the city learned about a cyber-threat to an application used to power web applications for online billing, licensing and tax statements. The threat could result…
Plaintiff in LinkedIn lawsuit says harm is irrelevant and the issue is deception
MainJustice has an update to the LinkedIn lawsuit concerning their massive hack last year. As expected, LinkedIn moved to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff hasn’t suffered any harm and hasn’t proved they used outdated security, but the plaintiff responds that harm is irrelevant – she wouldn’t have purchased a premium account if it…
Huntington’s Disease Society of America notifies employees and donors of possible compromise of their information
On May 3, an intruder compromised the web mail account of an HDSA executive. The purpose was likely to facilitate a fraudulent wire transfer from HDSA’s bank account, as the transfer could only occur if an email sent to the executive’s account was approved. The attempt failed, as the executive discovered the compromise on May…
Security breach at Opscode as attackers download databases
Iain Thomson reports: Opscode, the commercial side of the open source Chef configuration management tool beloved by Google, Facebook, and IBM, has warned customers that a flaw in an unnamed third-party application has left its wiki and ticketing system pwned. “The attacker gained escalated privileges and downloaded the user database for the wiki and ticketing…