Evan Schuman reports: The Starbucks mobile app, the most used mobile-payment app in the U.S., has been storing usernames, email addresses and passwords in clear text, Starbucks executives confirmed late on Tuesday (Jan. 14). The credentials were stored in such a way that anyone with access to the phone can see the passwords and usernames…
AU: Cyber attacks: pharmacies, patient records targeted 'ransomware' attacks
Jake Sturmer and Alison McClymont report: Pharmacists have become the latest targets of sophisticated computer hacks known as ransomware attacks, which lock up PCs until victims pay up. Once the hackers plant the virus, the files on a computer become encrypted and unable to be accessed. Victims have a set amount of time to pay…
Maintenance note
I’ve been informed that tonight (Thursday), my web host will be performing a server update, and that my sites may be unavailable at some point. They anticipate the outage to be 15-30 minutes. Based on past experiences, if I’m not back online by tomorrow noon, send coffee….
Maintenance note
I’ve been informed that tonight (Thursday), my web host will be performing a server update, and that my sites may be unavailable at some point. They anticipate the outage to be 15-30 minutes. Based on past experiences, if I’m not back online by tomorrow noon, send coffee….
Tokyo ordered to pay damages to Muslim victims of privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach covered previously on this site involving a data leak from the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 90 million yen (around $860,000) in damages to 17 Muslims for the breach of privacy lawsuit they filed against the city. Around 114 documents were leaked…
Credit Card Receipts from Bay Area Old Navy Store Mistakenly Shipped to Shopper in Upstate New York
Ah, that pesky human error strikes again. Marianne Favro reports: Attention, Old Navy shoppers: Your credit card receipt, with full account number and signature, may have ended up in a random mailbox in Upstate New York. Anita Vogel lives in West Seneca, New York, near Buffalo. She recently received a package in the mail containing…