Brian Krebs reports: vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets. The vDOS database, obtained…
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eThekwini shuts down e-services after user data leak
Kyle Venktess reports: Johannesburg – The eThekwini Municipality, which comprises Durban, has shut down its e-services website after it was revealed on Thursday that it was potentially leaking personal data. Fin24 reported on Thursday that the KwaZulu-Natal municipality’s e-services website is susceptible to hacking as residents’ personal information such as ID numbers and other data risks…
33 Million Plaintext Passwords Stolen From QIP.ru Instant Messaging Service
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have stolen over 33 million user records from QIP.ru, an instant messaging service used predominantly in Russia. Softpedia received a sample of the data from HEROIC, a cybersecurity startup that protects users from hackers and cyber threats. The company claims to have received the data from a hacker using the Jabber ID [email protected]….
Owen Smith Tweets Login Data to 16,000 Followers
Slack Alice writes: File under “major situational awareness issues”: A picture tweeted out by Labour’s leadership contender Owen Smith’s team inadvertently showed 16,000 people how to log into the Pontypridd MP’s phone bank system. The pic showed the candidate at a phone canvassing session—along with a sign in the background showing the web address, ID,…
Turkish hacker group says it was behind airport cyber attack
The Local reports: Austrian police are investigating whether a Turkish nationalist group was behind a failed cyber attack on Vienna airport last week. Hackers attempted to penetrate the airport’s computer systems but were prevented from doing so. In a tweet, the hacker group “Aslan Neferler Tim” or “Lion Soldiers Team” says it launched the attack…
Danish tax authority pays source for names mentioned in Panama Papers
DPA reports: Denmark will pay an anonymous source for information about hundreds of Danish nationals mentioned in a data leak from a Panama-based law firm linked to tax-dodging schemes, the Danish minister of taxation said Wednesday. Karsten Lauritzen welcomed the fact that parliament’s tax committee broadly supported the scheme, but noted “there is a risk…