PresseBox reports (translated): As it became known yesterday, the Munich GWG housing association has been the victim of a ransomware attack. Much of the company’s IT systems and data is affected; even backup servers and other data backups were encrypted in the course of the attack. As always with such attacks, the hackers stated that they would…
Hacker closing out prison sentence in Chicago halfway house
Herbert G. McCann reports: Computer hacker Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for breaking into computer systems of security firms and law-enforcement agencies, will serve out the remainder of his term in a Chicago halfway house, a U.S. Bureau of Prison spokesman said Wednesday. Read more on AP News.
Mitsubishi Electric again falls victim to cyberattack
Hisashi Naito and Tatsuya Sudo report: Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has again been hit by a massive cyberattack that may have resulted in the leaking of information related to its business partners. Company officials on Nov. 20 said they were checking the 8,653 accounts of those it has business transactions with to determine if information related…
Thousands of New Zealanders’ email addresses, passwords stolen in data breach
1News reports: A person is claiming to be in possession of 2.6 million email addresses and encrypted passwords from Nitro PDF, of which 4000 are .nz email addresses, cyber security organisation CERT NZ said in an alert this afternoon. “CERT NZ understands there has been further data released in this breach, the details are not yet…
GO SMS Pro — one of the most popular Android messaging apps — just exposed millions of private photos and files
James Gelinas reports: Data leaks are bad enough, but it officially becomes a security nightmare when one affects hundreds of millions of users. Earlier this year, an unsecured server belonging to Microsoft exposed the data of more than 250 million users. This included email addresses that hackers and scammers could use for criminal activities. Tap or…
Google is adding end-to-end encryption to its Android Messages app
Steve Ranger reports: Google is upping the security for at least some of the conversations on its Messages app by adding end-to-end encryption. It will be rolling out end-to-end encryption on Messages, starting with one-on-one conversations between people using the Rich Communication Services-based version of the app. Read more on ZDNet.