Chris Burt reports: Perceptics, the automated license plate reader company that suffered a massive breach of data it had collected under contract to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has agreed to new security controls and will be allowed to continue working with the agency, The Washington Post reports. At the time of the data breach, an…
CT: Hackers Target Weston Students In Phishing Scheme
Zak Failla reports: Hackers have targeted students at a Fairfield County High School in a recent phishing scheme that came to light. Several students have received questionable emails that stated their accounts had been hacked. In reality, the accounts were fine and the messages were phishing emails by opportunistic scammers. Read more on Westport Weston…
Sberbank says sensational data theft fully solved
Andrei Skvarsky reports: The source of last week’s sensational leak of Sberbank credit card details took “hours” to find out, Russia’s biggest lender said in announcing that the theft had been fully solved. The bank said in a statement that the data, which were put on sale in the black market, had been stolen by a junior…
Imperva blames data breach on stolen AWS API key
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Cyber-security firm Imperva published today a detailed post-mortem report of a security breach the company disclosed two months ago, in August. The company blamed the security breach on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) API key a hacker stole from an internal system that was left accessible from the internet. Read more on ZDNet.
JustDial fixes bug that allowed hackers access
The Economic Times reports: Local search service JustDial was found to contain a security flaw, through which a user account could potentially be hacked, but the company managed to rectify it in a day. A cyber security researcher, Ehraz Ahmed, uncovered the vulnerability, which was first reported by moneycontrol.com. Read more at Economic Times.
Tyler Nashatka a/k/a “Psycho” arraigned on hacking, conspiracy to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft; allegedly conspired with “Glubz”
Alleged hacker Anthony Tyler Nashatka, a/k/a “psycho,” appeared today in federal court on charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges related to a scheme to defraud victims of at least $1.4 million in cryptocurrency in December of 2017, announced United States Attorney…