A Romanian national pleaded guilty to a charge related to a
phishing operation that sought to defraud customers of banks such as
Citibank and Wells Fargo, and of Web sites such as eBay. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Lincoln National Corp. (LNC) last week
disclosed a security vulnerability in its portfolio information system
that could have compromised the account data of approximately 1.2
million customers. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
A former London pizza delivery man, Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, faces a 10-year prison sentence
after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for
computer crime. Read the full article. [The Register]
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has sued Health Net of
Connecticut for failing to secure private patient medical records
and financial information involving 446,000 Connecticut enrollees and is fighting for encryption on medical records. Read the full article. [Office of Inadequate Security]
The FBI today reminds Internet users who receive appeals to donate
money in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti to apply a
critical eye and do their due diligence before responding to those
requests. Read the guidelines. [FBI.gov]
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has
completed a security extension to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
protocol that fixes a flaw affecting browsers, servers, smart cards,
and VPN products, as well as many lower-profile devices, such as
Webcams, that contain the protocol embedded in their firmware. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
In the fall of 2009, districts in Colorado,
Illinois, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania all reported thefts of tens of
thousands of dollars. The threat continues: on January 5, 2010, the Duanesburg, New York
Central School District disclosed an attempted theft of $3.8 million,
about a quarter of the district’s operating budget. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]
New evidence indicates one of the gangs chiefly responsible for bank
attacks actually managed to hack directly into a West Virgina U.S. bank last year
and siphon off tens of thousands of dollars with the aid of unsuspecting money mules. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers
of New York’s Suffolk County National Bank after breaching its security and accessing a
server that hosted its online banking system. Read the full article. [The Register]
Google is apologizing after it mistakenly e-mailed potentially sensitive business data last week to other users of its business listings service. Read the full article. [InfoWorld]
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