Jordan Robertson reports: Brown-Forman Corp., a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages including Jack Daniel’s and Finlandia, said it was hit by a cyber-attack in which some information, including employee data, may have been impacted. The company, which is based in Louisville, Kentucky, said in a statement it was able to prevent its systems from being encrypted,…
Texas Man Sentenced to 57 Months for Computer Hacking and Aggravated Identity Theft
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of New York, yesterday, an update on a previously reported case: ALBANY, NEW YORK –Tyler C. King, age 31, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company….
UK: Plymouth Passport Office’s pitiful password privacy
A blog post by Graham Cluley really resonated here this week. It begins: The Plymouth Herald reports on what appears to be an easy-to-avoid gaffe. An eagle-eyed passer-by spotted a password on clear display at Her Majesty’s Passport Office in Ebrington Street, scrawled on a flipchart leaning against an upper window. The paper contacted the UK Home Office,…
Medical records for cardiac patients left unsecured online
On August 2, a researcher contacted DataBreaches.net about a misconfigured Amazon s3 storage bucket they had discovered. The bucket contained more than 10,000 files, recently updated, with protected health information of patients seen by or involved with BioTel Heart cardiac data network. Sometimes it is easy to figure out the likely owner of an Amazon…
North Korean Hacking Group Attacks Israeli Defense Industry
Ronen Bergman and Nicole Perlroth report: Israel claimed Wednesday that it had thwarted a cyberattack by a North Korea-linked hacking group on its classified defense industry. The Defense Ministry said the attack was deflected “in real time” and that there was no “harm or disruption” to its computer systems. However, security researchers at ClearSky, the international cybersecurity…
Check Point researchers uncovered Alexa flaw that exposed personal information and speech histories
Sharon Ross reports: Researchers at Check Point say they identified an exploit in Amazon’s Alexa voice platform that could have given attackers access to users’ personal information, speech histories, and Amazon accounts. In a blog post, they describe the way in which an attack might have been carried out against a user, beginning with a…