John Leyden reports: Hacktivists loyal to Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad claim to have extracted 1.5TB of sensitive data from chat app Tango. […] eHackingnews, which broke the story, reported that Tango was hit thanks to a vulnerable WordPress installation, based on screenshots of the hack supplied by the SEA. Tango confirmed it had suffered an…
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Korea grapples with massive personal data theft, regulatory mess
Has reliance on Internet Explorer, ActiveX, public key system combined to open ‘black hole’ in cyber security? The Korea Herald reports: A string of cyber attacks have bombarded South Korea in recent years, leading to massive leaks of personal information stored in banks, government agencies and corporations. In January 2008, hackers stole the personal data…
Apple Hacked: Company Admits Development Website Was Breached (UPDATED)
Apple admitted Sunday that its website for developers had been breached by an “intruder” last Thursday, according to All Things D and other sources. In a letter to developers that confirmed the breach, the company did not “rule out” that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and email addresses could have been accessed. However, customer information is encrypted and was not…
Hack exposes e-mail addresses, password data for 2 million Ubuntu Forum users
Dan Goodin reports that e-mail addresses, user names, and password data for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—estimated to be 1.82 million accounts—were exposed in a security breach. Read more on Ars Technica.
Federal judge allows organizations to file amicus briefs concerning Wyndham’s motion to dismiss FTC lawsuit
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A federal court judge in New Jersey on Wednesday agreed to allow the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other organizations to seek the dismissal of a closely watched data breach lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Wyndham Worldwide Corp. Read more on Computerworld. I’ve previously uploaded and covered some…
Congress aides warned of email login security breach after @OpLastResort tweets notice of hack
While many of us were watching the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on FISA, @OpLastResort tweeted: While the House Judiciary Committee held #FISAOversight hearings today, we’ve been doing some oversight of the House pic.twitter.com/obWimEBjTf — OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) July 17, 2013 Today, Richard Cowan reports: Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on…