Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Are the human gods creating our future robot overlords bestowing their creations with solid cybersecurity? A pair of hackers think not. The researchers, from security consultancy IOActive, claimed Wednesday to have found a whopping 50 vulnerabilities across components of major home and industrial robots. If exploited, those weaknesses could allow remote control of the machines…
Website of Korea retail giant Lotte hacked in China
Allen Cone reports: The Lotte Group said Wednesday its website in China was hacked, one day after South Korea’s retail giant signed a deal to sell land for a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. The website, www.lotte.cn, was inaccessible since Tuesday afternoon because of a virus planted by hackers, a Lotte official said, citing an analysis of…
Spiral Toys sends something to the California Attorney General, but what is it?
This just gets stranger and stranger in terms of how Spiral Toys is responding to the CloudPets leak and hack reported by Troy Hunt. The following is a Spiral Toy notification, sent to the California Attorney General’s Office today, below. All typos are as in the original. Why they sent this thing to the California Attorney General’s…
Newnan Woman Sentenced for Student Financial Aid Fraud; Used Patients’ Info
NEWNAN, Ga. – Andrea R. Williams has been sentenced to six years and seven months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for using stolen identities to file dozens of fraudulent federal student aid applications. According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: From in or about…
Eight Individuals Face Fraud, Identity Theft Charges Involving Possession of Names, Information of More Than 143,000 Individuals
February 17 – A 56-count federal indictment returned by a Utah grand jury charges eight individuals in connection with what the indictment alleges was a scheme to use fraudulently created identification documents and fraudulently obtained bank account information to open store credit accounts. The defendants then used the newly-obtained credit to make purchases at various merchants…
Aptos malware breach affected 40 online retail stores
Aptos, Inc. provides e-commerce solutions for a number of online e-tailers. In November, 2016, Aptos discovered it had a malware breach from February, 2016 – December, 2016. At law enforcement’s request, they delayed notification to their clients, so we are first finding out about it now as the clients begin to disclose the breach to their customers. So far,…