The largest credit card recall effort in Germany's history is underway after an undisclosed payment processor in Spain was breached. Affected individuals are currently being notified and they will be reimbursed if they suffered any losses.The warning about the dangerous situation came from both Visa and Mastercard. “The German banking industry has responded rapidly to the warning of VISA and MasterCard regarding a possible theft of credit card data from German customers at a Spanish company,” Germany's Central Credit Committee (ZKA), announces (translated from German).The total number of recalled credit cards is estima... [read more >>] Mozilla announced that its US official store website had been shut down due to a security breach that resulted in costumer data being compromised. GatewayCDI, the third-party vendor operating the site's back-end, is currently investigating the incident. The Mozilla Store website, store.mozilla.com, was launched by the Mozilla Corporation back in 2005 and is a place for US-based fans to acquire Mozilla-branded T-shirts, gear, outwear, software and other merchandise. The orders are fulfilled by a San Louis-based distribution company called GatewayCDI. In a brief post published yesterday on its official blog, Mozilla explains that Gatew... [read more >>] During a hearing in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, P2P intelligence company Tiversa informed that the location of a Secret Service safe house, to serve the presidential family in case of emergency, had been leaked onto the Gnutella network. In response, Congressman Edolphus Towns, representing the 10th District of New York, has called for a ban of such software on the computer networks of government agencies and contractors. Tiversa, headquartered near Pittsburgh, PA, is a company that specializes in searching peer-to-peer networks for leaked confidential information and investigating such incidents. Accordin... [read more >>] Network Solutions, one of the biggest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, announced a data breach incident yesterday after malicious code had been found on its e-commerce servers. According to the company, the malware might have intercepted transactions from 4,343 websites, compromising 573,928 credit cards in the process. The unauthorized code was detected by Network Solutions technicians during routine check-ups of its e-commerce infrastructure. The company sells web hosting solutions particularly fitted for merchants, which run on servers housed on a separate network segment. However, only a portion of these serve... [read more >>] A document entitled "The List of Sites, Locations, Facilities, and Activities Declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency" has been mistakenly published by the Government Printing Office (GPO) on its website. The 266-page document contains sensitive information about civilian nuclear programs in the United States and should have been submitted to IAEA later this year. The confidential list was discovered during a routine review of the documents on the GPO website by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' (FAS) Project on Government Secrecy. Originally posted on the FAS website, the document has bee... [read more >>] A covert operation against members of an al-Qaeda-related terrorist cell, which was allegedly preparing two major bomb attacks in Manchester, was compromised after someone photographed a highly sensitive document, left in plain sight by Robert Quick, the now-former head of counter terrorism in the Metropolitan Police. As a result, raids and arrests had to be performed ahead of schedule. The MI5 and the Counter Terrorism Unit of the Metropolitan Police had twelve individuals under surveillance for months under the suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. According to The Times, they were gathering materials for a huge explosion and were pl... [read more >>] The Romanian self-proclaimed ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability in the website of Tiscali UK. The flaw allows for unauthorized access to the database containing the personal and login information of the registered users. Tiscali is an European Internet service provider headquartered in Italy, but also operating in the United Kingdom, Germany and the Czech Republic. In addition to broadband Internet access, the company offers telephone and television services and runs large web portals in each of the mentioned countries. Tiscali.co.uk is the website operated by the UK branch of Tiscali and offer... [read more >>] Following the disclosure of an SQL injection vulnerability affecting a section of the British Telecom website, the company claims that no customer data has been affected. Meanwhile, the hacker has published evidence of a new, more serious flaw on BT.com. The original security breach was reported by a Romanian hacker calling himself "unu" in a post on the website of the self-proclaimed ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog. In an e-mail to Softpedia, a BT spokesperson claims that the security breach has only affected a test system. "BT has carried out a thorough investigation of this alleged breach. We have found that access was gained to a te... [read more >>] Evidence of an SQLi flaw allegedly affecting the website of BT, one of the largest communications providers in the world, has been published by a self-confessed white-hat hacker. He claims that successful exploitation of the vulnerability exposes the login credentials and e-mail addresses of registered users. BT, also known as British Telecom, is the official communication services partner for the London 2012 Olympics. According to its own description, "BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries." The company offers a wide-range of services including broadband Interne... [read more >>] HackersBlog, the Romanian whitehat hacking outfit, have disclosed an SQL vulnerability in a section of the telegraph.co.uk website. According to the group, the flaw gives attackers access to over 700,000 e-mail addresses and user passwords.The Daily Telegraph, also referred to as The Telegraph, is one of the biggest daily newspapers in UK. It was founded in 1855 and currently has a daily circulation of almost 850,000. The telegraph.co.uk website is home to the online version of The Daily Telegraph and its sister paper The Sunday Telegraph and is one of the most popular consumer websites in Britain.The SQL injection flaw affecting one of the... [read more >>] | 
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