AFP reports: Austrian aircraft parts maker FACC said Wednesday that it has fired its chief executive of 17 years after cyber criminals stole some 50 million euros ($55.7 million) in a so-called “fake president” scam. FACC, whose customers include Airbus, Boeing and Rolls-Royce, said that the its supervisory board sacked Walter Stephan with immediate effect after he…
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UK man charged over attack on Mumsnet
There’s been an arrest in the attacks on parenting site Mumsnet. Charlie Osborne reports: A British man has been charged in connection to a cyberattack against Mumsnet which knocked the popular parenting website offline. Mumsnet experienced a data breach earlier this year when a hacker broke into the website’s servers and exploited administration privileges to redirect…
In: Raids by Agra drug enforcement dept fail due to leak of information
Anuja Jaiswal reports: An apparent leak from the Food Safety and Drug Department, Agra, resulted in a series of failed raids by it’s Enforcement wing on Tuesday afternoon, as six medical stores in the city, suspected to be selling flavoured “tincture”, which has 90 per cent alcohol content, as a cheap liquor alternative to alcoholics, were…
AU: Email fail at Do Not Call Register, thousands of contacts exposed
Brendon Foye reports: Thousands of email addresses were exposed yesterday in an email sent on behalf of the Do Not Call Register. […] In an email sighted by CRN sent yesterday, DNCR Support informed about a planned service outage scheduled for 25 May. The email contained more than 2,000 email addresses in the “To” field….
NLC leaks its Private keys and sensitive information – A heartbleed Hack on NLC
Manoj Kumar Thambulingam reports: NLCIndia.com—one of the Indian Government Navarathna award winning public sector enterprise, providing several services through web interface — has reportedly been hacked , exposing the site’s user credentials.NLC (Neyveli Lignite Corporation) is an Indian Goverment owned Lignite mining and power generating company . And it was one of the elite company of India. It…
Technical report on RUAG breach: malware was from Turla family
More on the defense contractor RUAG breach previously noted on this site. Melani has issued a technical report on the breach that may be of interest to some. From the summary: The attackers have been using malware from the Turla family, which has been in the wild for several years. The variant observed in the…