An errant e-mail campaign has rattled subscribers to the New York Times with false cancellation notices. The e-mail blast meant for 300 subscribers was instead sent to 8 million current subscribers, raising speculation that the paper suffered a data breach.
Just days after a successful attack on the security think tank Stratfor, Anonymous, the anarchic hacking collective, is getting headlines again for an attack on Specialforces.com, a Web site used by members of the armed forces law enforcement officers and gun enthusiasts. However, an employee working for the online store said the group is playing the media by taking credit for a hack that happened months ago.
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An Israeli technology firm says it it looking into accusations made in a published report by Bloomberg that its software was sold to Iran, even as it denies claims in the report that its technology can be used for surveillance.
After first denying their existence, a Siemens spokesman acknowledged on Thursday that his company was aware of a series of security vulnerabilities in its software that could allow remote attackers to take control of industrial control systems.
An audit of Facebook’s operations by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland will result in major changes to the way the social networking giant manages user data.
A month after an unknown gray hat hacker calling himself “pr0f” used a three character password to hack his way onto computers used to manage water treatment equipment in South Houston, Texas, a security researcher is accusing the company that makes the industrial control system (ICS) software, Siemens, of trying to cover up the existence of other, more serious vulnerabilities.
USAA is warning its members about a sophisticated phishing scam that attempts to install a malicious banking Trojan on members computers.
Investigations by the BBC suggest a widening probe into alleged computer hacking by UK newspapers. In all, the computer hacking may have been as widespread as now-notorious voicemail hacking conducted by reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, and may have compromised classified British intelligence from government officials, the reports say.
The Romanian Banks Association has issued a warning to credit card users in that country to be on the lookout for suspicious charges, after the Agency received notice of a possible breach at European credit card processor.(PDF)
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