Brian Krebs reports: Citing ongoing security concerns, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a service offered via its Web site that allowed taxpayers to retrieve so-called IP Protection PINs (IP PINs), codes that the IRS has mailed to some 2.7 million taxpayers to help prevent those individuals from becoming victims of tax refund fraud two years in…
South Bay Victim of Medical ID Theft Says Brother Should be in Prison
Vicky Nguyen and David Paredes report: South Bay man Ronnie Bogle gave an emotional courtroom statement at the sentencing hearing for his brother Gary Bogle, saying Gary “tortured” him for years by stealing his identity and using it for medical treatment at hospitals around the country. Read more on NBC.
Finland probes ‘extensive’ data breach at Foreign Ministry
Kati Pohjanpalo and Kasper Viita report: Finland’s Security Police is investigating the infiltration of the Foreign Ministry’s data network by spies, Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said. “The data breach was an extensive attempt to spy on an entire network,” Tuomioja told reporters here Thursday after broadcaster MTV3 reported the ministry’s network was the target of…
Cybersecurity issues raised by GhostShell on International Women’s Day
The following commentary was contributed by GhostShell of Team GhostShell, in honor of International Women’s Day. Something has been bugging me for quite some time and I was planning on speaking about it publicly eventually but I suppose now is a good opportunity for it, too. While active all these years on the scene together with the…
Onion Dog, A 3 Year Old APT Focused On the Energy and Transportation Industries in Korean-language Countries Exposed by 360 SkyEye Labs
The Helios Team at 360 SkyEye Labs recently revealed that a hacker group named OnionDog has been infiltrating and stealing information from the energy, transportation and other infrastructure industries of Korean-language countries through the Internet. According to big data correlation analysis, OnionDog’s first activity can be traced back to October, 2013 and in the following two years it…
Home Depot settles breach lawsuit
Jonathan Stempl reports that Home Depot has settled a lawsuit over its 2014 breach. As part of the settlement, the firm will reportedly pay $13 million to compensate consumers and $6.5 million to fund 1-1/2 years of identity protection services for cardholders.