Alessandra Malito reports: Potential security risk concerns over Finra’s highly-debated Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System proposal, or CARDS, are not simply hot air, cybersecurity and big data experts say. The initiative by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., which was recently put on hold for further evaluation amid negative feedback, was proposed as a means of…
University of Illinois hacked?
After a period of relative quiet, it appears that the hacker known as “JM511” is back and busy. According to some tweets last night, the University of Illinois has been hacked via SQL injection: What’s happening? #JM511 I got #SqL_injection#blind On: ? http://t.co/qeD2Z3o8HN I’m Ur #nightmare @Illinois_Alma pic.twitter.com/wtIVjSzlt8 — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) May 5, 2015 A screencap from the…
Potential class action lawsuit against eBay dismissed
It was a good day for eBay in a federal court in Louisiana. Judge Susie Morgan dismissed, without prejudice, a potential class action lawsuit that had filed in July 2014 by Collin Green against eBay over the data breach they had disclosed in 2014. At the time, eBay said it had no evidence that payment…
So how’s that working out for you, phisher?
This could possibly be one of the worst – if not THE worst – PayPal phishes I’ve ever seen: From: Reseller Customer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] Subject: Your account is currently unable to use Update your Pay Pal Account. Dear Member, We have faced some problems with your Pay Pal account Please Update your…
Anonymous hacker breached WTO database and leaked data of internal staff
Pierluigi Paganini writes: Hackers belonging the Anonymous collective compromised the website of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and leaked its database containing personal data of its members. The stolen data are related to personnel of WTO sites located in various countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Santo Domingo, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, United States…
Supreme Court to Examine Standing Under FCRA
Jason C. Gavejian and B. Tyler Philippi write: The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to hear a case brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) to determine whether individual consumers have standing to sue a consumer reporting agency for statutory violations of the FCRA when no “actual damages” were suffered by the consumer. The FCRA, like other privacy laws,…