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North Korea Tried to Hack Smartphones in South Korea With Malware-Infested Games

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Dissent

David Gilbert reports: North Korea has put its elite cyber-warfare unit to work creating malware posing as smartphone games which it posted on South Korean websites and infected up to 20,000 devices. That is according to a report from the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) which was delivered to the parliament in Seoul this…

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MA: Bankers say data breach that affected Easthampton, Southampton businesses, including Big E’s, over

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Dissent

EASTHAMPTON — Local bankers said this week that data breaches at some retailers in Easthampton and Southampton, including Big E’s Supermarket, appear to be over, thanks partly to businesses’ efforts to upgrade security. […] During the height of the fraudulent activity, bankers and law enforcement officials refused to release the names of the businesses affected…

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Arkansas State University-Beebe alerts students and employees to potential breach

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Dissent

Arkansas State University-Beebe issued a precautionary notice of a potential data breach regarding personally identifiable information of students and employees at its campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy and the Little Rock Air Force Base. The infected server did not contain credit card information for any current or former student or employee. On October…

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Will this lesson be learned?

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Dissent

When I saw the headline, “Class action lawsuit seeks to send message about the importance of safeguarding data,” I thought, “Oh, puhleese, how many times are we going to claim we’re just trying to send a message? Why haven’t they gotten it already?” But then I kept reading a news story by Joel Griffin, and…

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BreyerHorse.com site compromised for 18 months

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Dissent

Reeves International is notifying consumers who made purchases on BreyerHorses.com that their personal information may have been compromised in a breach that went undetected for 18 months. In a letter to those affected, Arthur Minnocci, CFO, writes: On September 9, 2014, we learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on the computer server hosting the Breyer Horses…

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Cyberswim notifying online customers of breach at web host (UPDATED)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dissent

Uh oh. Any consumer notification template that reports a breach due to malware injection on the web host’s server and/or includes [INSERT SITE NAME HERE] doesn’t bode well, especially when the compromise lasted for more than three months before being detected. See Cyberswim‘s template notification letter, here (pdf).  I don’t see any notification on their web site…

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