Kelly Ng reports: Hackers broke into a Meridian Secondary School website last month, prompting the school to make a police report. The Young Illustrator Award site, which hosted an online art competition open to primary and secondary school students, was hacked on August 30 and has been taken down, the school said in a media statement on…
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Moscow Court Sentences ‘Shaltai-Boltai’ Hackers To Prison
RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty reports: A Moscow court has sentenced two Russian hackers to three years in prison each for breaking into the e-mail accounts of top Russian officials and leaking them. Konstantin Teplyakov and Aleksandr Filinov were members of the Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty in Russian) collective believed to be behind the hacking of high-profile accounts, including…
Taringa hacked: 28 million users’ credentials compromised – LeakBase
Mohit Kumar reports: If you have an account on Taringa, also known as “The Latin American Reddit,” your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over 28 million users. Taringa is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users, who create and…
Customer data stolen after attack on jobs platform cpjobs.com
From HumanResources: Online jobs platform cpjobs.com has reported an unauthorised third-party attack on the website, compromising the security of user data. Impacted pages have been shut down and all users’ passwords have been deactivated. […] In an additional security notice on the website, the company reveals it has identified two attempts to attack the website…
Just smile: In KFC China store, diners have new way to pay
Reuters reports: Diners at a KFC store in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou will have a new way to pay for their meal. Just smile. Customers will be able to use a “Smile to Pay” facial recognition system at the tech-heavy, health-focused concept store, part of a drive by Yum China Holdings Inc to…
Facial recognition to be required for mainland Mastercard, Visa cardholders
Macau Daily Times reports: Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM) will be adopting facial recognition technology for mainland withdrawals made by Visa and Mastercard cardholders at automated teller machines (ATMs) in September, according to a report by Oriental Daily News. Read more on Macau Daily Times. h/t Joe Cadillic