Erika Tucker reports: A 15-year-old Calgary teen has been arrested and charged with hacking into public school board servers between November 2014 and March 2015. The teen allegedly hacked into the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) servers using phishing e-mails and credentials. Police say once in the server, he accessed corporate and personal information, but wouldn’t…
Category: Malware
Israel-linked spyware used stolen credentials of Chinese tech giant
Tamar Pileggi reports: A sophisticated computer virus discovered at hotels hosting high-level nuclear talks and reportedly linked to Israel appears to have also broken into Chinese electronics giant Foxconn. According to the cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, the Duqu 2.0 software used legitimate digital certificates stolen from the Taiwan-based electronics company to load and run…
Akorn, Inc. notifies employees after email accounts compromised (UPDATED)
Add Akorn, Inc. to any list you maintain of organizations whose employee email accounts have been compromised. Through their external counsel, the niche generic pharmaceutical firm notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 4 that they had discovered that four employee e-mail accounts had been comprised over the prior two months, exposing personal…
Japanese oil association hit by cyber-attack
Japan’s Petroleum Association was hit by a targeted cyber-attack earlier this month, which saw numerous PCs become infected with an unknown virus. Read more on SCMagazine.
NY: Data breach occurs at Holiday Valley resort
The management at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville said a data breach occurred between Oct. 17, 2014 and June 2, and affected credit and debit card purchases of food, recreation, retail and lodging. Read more on BradfordEra.com. A statement on Holiday Valley’s web site reads: Dear Holiday Valley Customer: I’m sorry to report that Holiday Valley…
Fred’s investigates credit card breach
Brian Krebs reports: Fred’s Inc., a discount general merchandise and pharmacy chain that operates 650 stores in more than a dozen states, disclosed today that it is investigating a potential credit card breach. KrebsOnSecurity contacted Fred’s earlier this week, after hearing from multiple financial institutions about a pattern of fraud on customer cards indicating that…