Incidents  

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 6th, 2015
HackerOne Chief Policy Officer Forced to Decrypt Laptop at Charles de Gaulle Airport

HackerOne Chief Policy Officer Forced to Decrypt Laptop at Charles de Gaulle Airport

No request to power on other devices save for the computer

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 6th, 2015
Custom Greeting Card Seller Moonpig Fixes Security Blunder 17 Months After Responsible Disclosure

Custom Greeting Card Seller Moonpig Fixes Security Blunder 17 Months After Responsible Disclosure

An estimated three million customers ran the risk of having private information in their account stolen

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 6th, 2015
Over $5 Million Stolen from Bitstamp’s Bitcoin Wallets

Over $5 Million Stolen from Bitstamp’s Bitcoin Wallets

Company is working to restore the service in the next days

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 6th, 2015
Fake Google SSL Certificate Used by Gogo In-Flight WiFi Service on Its Customers

Fake Google SSL Certificate Used by Gogo In-Flight WiFi Service on Its Customers

Customers' privacy at risk of man-in-the-middle attack

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 5th, 2015
Hack Attack Suspected at Bitstamp, Cryptocurrency Exchange Service Goes Offline

Hack Attack Suspected at Bitstamp, Cryptocurrency Exchange Service Goes Offline

Details are scarce, some addresses have been compromised

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 5th, 2015
Hacker Steals Data from US Universities, Dumps It Online

Hacker Steals Data from US Universities, Dumps It Online

Hackers did it to prove inadequate security of the data

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 3rd, 2015
Arab Security Team Is on a Website Defacement Spree

Arab Security Team Is on a Website Defacement Spree

Hackers appear to have something against the UK

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 3rd, 2015
Lizard Squad Takes Aim and Fires at KrebsOnSecurity

Lizard Squad Takes Aim and Fires at KrebsOnSecurity

Lizards hint at possible cyber-attack on the website

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • January 3rd, 2015
Card Data of About 9,000 Chick-fil-A Customers Is Compromised

Card Data of About 9,000 Chick-fil-A Customers Is Compromised

Company investigates possible card breach

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 30th, 2014
Card Data of OneStopParking.com Customers Available for Sale on Underground Forum

Card Data of OneStopParking.com Customers Available for Sale on Underground Forum

Customers complained, company upgraded security

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 30th, 2014
MileagePlus Accounts of United Airlines Frequent Flyers Accessed by Unauthorized Party

MileagePlus Accounts of United Airlines Frequent Flyers Accessed by Unauthorized Party

Company offers instructions to gain access to the account

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 30th, 2014
Havex RAT Authors Self-Sign Malware to Appear from IBM, 64-Bit Version Spotted

Havex RAT Authors Self-Sign Malware to Appear from IBM, 64-Bit Version Spotted

Threat actors are expected to continue to modify the threat

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 30th, 2014
Bryan Adams Website Hacked, but Out of Love for Him

Bryan Adams Website Hacked, but Out of Love for Him

Admin should read between the lines of the message

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 27th, 2014
North Korea Blames the US for Attack That Disrupted Internet in the Country

North Korea Blames the US for Attack That Disrupted Internet in the Country

US officials say they had nothing to do with the issue

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 27th, 2014
Lizard Squad’s Attack on Tor Anonymity Network Adds 3,000 New Relays

Lizard Squad’s Attack on Tor Anonymity Network Adds 3,000 New Relays

Tor maintainers say this is nothing to worry about

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 27th, 2014
Internet Systems Consortium Website Has Been Compromised to Serve Malware

Internet Systems Consortium Website Has Been Compromised to Serve Malware

ISC advises recent visitors to scan their system for malware

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  • By Ionut Ilascu
  • December 24th, 2014
Malware Families Distributed Through Malicious Campaign Targeting WordPress Sites

Malware Families Distributed Through Malicious Campaign Targeting WordPress Sites

Websites used as drop points by EK authors and spammers

 
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