David Ramli reports: Australia’s leading cyber-spies have joined the hunt for hackers who broke into Telstra’s Asian subsidiary Pacnet in an attack affecting thousands of customers including The Australian Federal Police, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other government agencies. Telstra on Wednesday revealed that an unknown third-party had gained complete access to Pacnet’s corporate network including emails and…
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Manchester car park lock hack leads to horn-blare hoo-ha
John Leyden reports: Vehicles across an entire car park in Manchester had their locks jammed on Sunday as the apparent result of a botched criminally-motivated hack. No one at the Manchester Fort Shopping Park, in north Manchester, was able to lock their car’s doors on Sunday evening as a result of the attack by persons as-yet…
Female hacker arraigned for hacking and bank fraud in Lagos
Last month, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the arraignment of an individual on charges of hacking a bank. This week, they announce an arraignment in a second hacking case: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday May 14, 2015 arraigned one Mary Ozala before Justice Kudirat. A. Jose of the Lagos State High…
UK: Bettys specialty foods notifies customers of data breach
From Bettys.co.uk, a notification of a breach they discovered on May 8. Frustratingly, they only say that it was due to an “industry-wide software weakness” without being more specific as to what they’re talking about. DataBreaches.net contacted Bettys to ask for more specifics, but they declined to answer, saying public disclosure would only encourage copycat attacks, and…
How Evil Hackers Can Cause Chaos At Horribly Vulnerable Car Parks
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: There’s been growing interest in car hacking in recent years, inspired by researchers showing off exploits in real vehicles, tinkering with Teslas, and uncovering glaring vulnerabilities in third party kit. But criminal hackers could vex drivers in other ways, such as compromising internet-connected, easily hackable parking management systems, according to Spanish researcher Jose Guasch. At the Hack…
Expo 2015 – Anonymous Italy claims to have stolen 1TB data from Best Union
Pierluigi Paganini reports: Anonymous Italy continues to target the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition being hosted in Milan with a series of attacks under the Operation Italy (#OpItaly). The collective of hackers it targeting systems of the organization and the companies that are working for the event. The last victim in order of time is the Best Union,…