Chris McMahon reports: Queensland’s oldest sex shop has been held to ransom by hackers who infected the store’s computers, locking down all its files with a highly sophisticated malware. Hackers hit Charters Towers Rd adult shop Sweethearts early on Friday morning through an email that infected the store’s servers, holding their data to ransom until…
Researchers Find Major Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Sheriff Parental Monitoring Application
I had first raised concerns about “Smart Sheriff” software back in May when I first heard about it, but now The Citizen Lab has investigated it more and issued a concerning report. Their press release, courtesy of a Canadian reader: Toronto, Canada (20 September 2015) — Today, the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto…
Inside Target Corp., Days After 2013 Breach
Brian Krebs reports: In December 2013, just days after a data breach exposed 40 million customer debit and credit card accounts, Target Corp. hired security experts at Verizon to probe its networks for weaknesses. The results of that confidential investigation — until now never publicly revealed — confirm what pundits have long suspected: Once inside Target’s network, there was nothing stop…
Apple cleaning up iOS App Store after first major attack
Jim Finkle reports: Apple Inc APPL.O said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet. The company disclosed the effort after several cyber security firms reported finding a malicious program dubbed XcodeGhost that was…
Anonymous Hacks Vietnam Govt websites Against Human Rights Abuse
Waqas writes: The online hacktivists affiliated to Anonymous, AntiSec and HagashTeam conducted a cyber attack on Vietnamese government websites against online censorship and human rights violations in the country. The hacktivist groups left a deface page along with a message on 8 Vietnamese government websites against the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners. Read more on…
Defamation lawsuit threat, Saturday edition
from the i’m-from-the-supreme-court dept Getting threatened with defamation lawsuits seems to go with the territory of reporting on data breaches. Even when reporting is accurate, some folks seem to think that if they threaten a defamation lawsuit, little sites like this one will just cave in to their demands. As background to this week’s installment of “All…