Yelitza V. Dunham of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: A group of Liberty Mutual insurance companies successfully obtained declaratory relief that they had no duty to defend Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. from two underlying actions alleging that spyware had been installed on rent-to-own computers. One of these, the Byrd Action, was a putative class action…
Security researchers face wrath of spy agencies
Darren Pauli reports: Researchers tasked with revealing attacks by intelligence agencies are being harassed, locked out of tenders, and in some cases deported, Kaspersky researcher Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade says. Retaliation by the unnamed agencies is in direct response to news of prominent advanced-persistent threat campaigns that have coloured information security reporting over recent years. Those…
German surfers blitzed by widespread malvertising campaign
John Leyden reports: German surfers are under attack from multiple directions this week because of a widespread malvertising campaign. Users of eBay.de and subscribers of ISP T-Online.de were confronted with tainted ads after cybercrooks succeeded in pushing malicious traffic through rogue systems. Read more on The Register.
Anons blow Japanese airports off-course in dolphin cull protest
John Leyden reports: Hacktivist collective Anonymous knocked offline two of Japan’s busiest websites in a protest against dolphin killings. Distributed denial-of-service attacks against Tokyo’s Narita airport and Nagoya’s Chubu airport left each largely inaccessible for about eight hours. Flights at both airports were unaffected, the Japan Times reports. Read more on The Register.
NATO, White House hackers tried to pwn MH17 air disaster probe
Shaun Nichols reports: The Pawn Storm hackers who tried to infiltrate NATO and White House networks have been spotted bothering another sensitive target: the team investigating the downed Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight. Researchers at Trend Micro found suspicious SFTP, VPN, and Outlook Web Access servers configured to collect usernames and passwords from officials probing the aircraft disaster. Read…
FL: Broward man with 8,000 stolen IDs sentenced to prison for fraud
Paula McMahon reports: A Broward County man who amassed 8,000 stolen identities while committing multiple frauds was sentenced to more than nine years in federal prison Thursday, prosecutors said. Leonce Jeudy, 25, of Plantation, pleaded guilty to federal drug-dealing, fraud and identity theft charges earlier this year. Read more on Sun Sentinel. I really wish they’d…