FPJ reports: In a major security breach, Indian space agency ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix’s website has been defaced, possibly by the Chinese. Antrix markets the satellite launch services and other space data for global customers. Incidentally, on Friday ISRO had launched five British satellites. Antrix’s website was hacked a couple of days back and the…
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Cloudminr.io Hacked, User Database Put Up For Sale
Users of the “cloud mining” service Cloudminr.io were greeted with an unwelcome surprise when they showed up at the site in the last several hours: a CSV (comma separated values) file containing a sample of the entire user database for the website. The whole site is apparently for sale, and the hackers appear to have…
Scots customers among 2,000 people caught up in Barclays data theft
Herald Scotland reports: Barclays is paying around half a million pounds in compensation to 2,000 customers, including many in Scotland, after their personal data was found on a USB stick at a flat on the south coast of England. The electronic device was found by police with a copy of information originally lost last year…
Hacking Team chief: ‘We’re the GOOD GUYS fighting crims and rooting out lone wolves’
Oh ho. Kelly Fiveash reports that Hacking Team claims it was the victim of a state actor: The boss of Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team has spoken for the first time about the mass hack on the beleaguered company’s data – which has exposed severe software security holes and gifted terrorists with zero-day exploits. David Vincenzetti, in an…
Computer hack reveals identity of Syrians in contact with Israel
Elhanan Miller reports: Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides. Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge…
Walmart Canada looks into possible credit card data breach
Ahmad Hathout and David Berman report: Walmart Canada is investigating a potential breach of customer credit card data after one of its websites operated by a third party was compromised. […] A source close to the situation told The Globe and Mail that as many as 60,000 customers could be affected. According to Walmart’s website,…