Wait – we can’t believe everything we read on the Internet?! Hamish Barwick reports: The Australian Institute of Business Brokers (AIBB) has denied reports that encrypted passwords belonging to 250 of its members were posted online. Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for posting the passwords. An AIBB spokesperson told Computerworld Australia that all the group had…
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Hackers Publish Israelis’ Credit Card Information
Elad Benari reports: A hackers’ site bearing the name of Hizbullah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in 2008, published on Wednesday databases that were stolen from the Israeli storage company Webgate and which include personal information and credit card numbers of Israelis. Channel 10 News reported that, in addition to the credit card numbers,…
LinkedIn reportedly spent nearly $1 million already to fix security breach (updated)
Gene Ryan Briones reports: Following the hapless security infraction that LinkedIn experienced two months ago, the company is now saying that it has spent a huge amount of money to fix the problem. Fresh from its earnings call today, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said that the company has spent between $500,000 and $1 million on…
Yahoo Sued After Disclosure User Names, Passwords Stolen
Karen Gullo reports: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the operator of the biggest U.S. Web portal, was sued for negligence over its disclosure that as many as 450,000 user names and passwords were stolen from one of its sites. A Yahoo user who said his login credentials were posted online after a hacker infiltrated a company database…
Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features
Rip Empson reports: Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but…
TSP head expresses regret over cyberattack
Kellie Lunney reports that the recent TSP breach has inspired at least one Senator to try to require all federal agencies to have a breach notification policy in place. You’d have thought they would have one already, wouldn’t you, but apparently not…. The head of the Thrift Savings Plan expressed regret on Tuesday over not…