Jay Alabaster reports: Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China and Taiwan, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after a message was posted on the popular text-sharing website Pastebin by a…
Health ministry suspends workers over privacy breach
Jonathan Fowlie reports: Seven employees have been suspended without pay from the B.C. Ministry of Health over allegations of inappropriate access to medical information, The Vancouver Sun has learned. The employees in question worked in the area of research and evidence development, which awards drug research contracts on behalf of the ministry. Government has also…
Official Siemens Taiwan Hacked, Defaced and Data Leaked
A hacker using the handle Maxney who is apart of the Turkish hacker group "Turkish Ajan Hacker Group" (www.turkishajan.com) has just tipped us off to an attack on an official Siemens Taiwan website that is dedicated for automation and drives. The hack has left the site subdomain www.ad.siemens.com.tw defaced with force viewing of the .html file which contains now real message besides a…
Apple: We Didn’t Give FBI Any Device IDs
John Paczkowski got a statement from Apple, denying that they provided the FBI with the database of device IDs: “The FBI has not requested this information from Apple, nor have we provided it to the FBI or any organization. Additionally, with iOS 6 we introduced a new set of APIs meant to replace the use…
61 Israeli Sites hacked by BD Grey Hat Hackers
A group of Bangladeshi hackers who use the name BD Grey Hat Hackers have attacked 61 Israeli sites in an recent attack. The defacement has a very clear message which states they have been hacked for the deaths of Muslims in Palestine, Burma and India-Bangladeshi border. At time of publishing some of the sites had been restored already. 1. https://abuilding.co.il/ 2. https://asaf-zilum.co.il/ 3. https://avi-ram.co.il/ 4….
Widely used fingerprint reader exposes Windows passwords in seconds
Dan Goodin reports: Fingerprint-reading software preinstalled on laptops sold by Dell, Sony, and at least 14 other PC makers contains a serious weakness that makes it trivial for hackers with physical control of the machine to quickly recover account passwords, security researchers said. The UPEK Protector Suite, which was acquired by Melbourne, Florida-based Authentec two years ago, is…