SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users

U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information PII of almost 6.5 million customers. Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online...

Even If Rod Rosenstein Stays, the Mueller Investigation Status Quo Won't Last

Much of the speculation around deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein's fate misses how disruptive a post-midterms shake-up could be...

Container theft, the legal system and poor maritime security

One of the most interesting legal cases I’ve read recently involves a theft of two containers of cobalt metal briquettes from a terminal at the port of Antwerp. Original judgment: Appeal: What drew me to this case was the amount of useful data that had entered the public domain concerning a crime...

Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail

Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other "complex" cybercrime cases in return to avoid their lengthy prison terms. Paras Jha, 21 from New Jersey, Josiah White, 20 from Washington, and...

Ransomware Attack Takes Down Bristol Airport's Flight Display Screens

Bristol Airport has blamed a ransomware attack for causing a blackout of flight information screens for two days over the weekend. The airport said that the attack started Friday morning, taking out several computers over the airport network, including its in-house display screens which provide...

British Airways Hacked – 380,000 Payment Cards Compromised

British Airways, who describes itself as "The World's Favorite Airline," has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal details and credit-card numbers of up to 380,000 customers and lasted for more than two weeks. So who exactly are victims? In a statement released by British Airways on...

Travel Breaches Hit Air Canada and Asia-Pac Hotelier

It’s been a busy week on the data breach front. First, Air Canada said that a breach of around 20,000 mobile app users had exposed passport information. At the same time, millions have been affected by an information heist targeting a Chinese hotel group with 3,500 properties across the...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Leveraging cmd.exe and PowerShell Demonstrates How Attackers Are Using Trusted Microsoft Applications for Malicious Behavior

An attack leveraging cmd.exe and PowerShell was recently investigated by Cb ThreatSight analysts. Our initial investigation discovered that a batch file was executed on the targeted system. This batch file then invoked PowerShell with a base64 encoded command. Decoding the command revealed a seri...

Recent App Issues Reveal Facebook’s Struggles to Temper Data Privacy Woes

Facebook was hit with a double privacy punch regarding data privacy on Wednesday. First, Facebook acknowledged in a public post that one of the apps on its platform, myPersonality, inappropriately shared 4 million users’ data with researchers. Also on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported...

Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature

Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true. Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue. Last week,...

AT&T Faces $224M Legal Challenge Over SIM-Jacking Rings

Cryptocurrency investor and Dogecoin founder Michael Terpin has filed a $223.8 million lawsuit against AT&T, alleging the mobile phone giant turned a blind eye to SIM fraud. Terpin alleges that more than 3 million cryptocurrency tokens worth $24 million were lifted from his digital wallet at an...

16-Year-Old Teen Hacked Apple Servers, Stole 90GB of Secure Files

Well, there's something quite embarrassing for Apple fans. Though Apple servers are widely believed to be unhackable, a 16-year-old high school student proved that nothing is impossible. The teenager from Melbourne, Australia, managed to break into Apple servers and downloaded some 90GB of secure...

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County...

Valve: Getting all the CD keys of any game

Using the /partnercdkeys/assignkeys/ endpoint on partner.steamgames.com with specific parameters, an authenticated user could download previously-generated CD keys for a game which they would not normally have access. Audit logs were not bypassed using this method, and an investigation of those...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Responding Quickly To Threats

In this week’s installment of 10 endpoint security problems solved by the cloud, we’re going to step away from last week’s topic, identifying problems, and examine how the cloud helps organizations respond quickly to threats. Speed is Critical Attackers move quickly, and your ability to respond...

Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers

Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated. In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in Europe, admitted that the breach affected around 10 million customers, up from an initial estimate of...

Boys Town Healthcare Data Breach Exposed Personal Details of Patients

Another day, Another data breach! This time-sensitive and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people at Boys Town National Research Hospital have been exposed in what appears to be the largest ever reported breach by a pediatric care provider or children's hospital. According to the U.S...

CoinVault Ransomware Authors Sentenced to 240 Hours of Community Service

Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing CoinVault ransomware malware, a district court in Rotterdam today sentenced them to 240 hours of community service. In 2015, the two suspects — Melvin 25-year-old...

Facebook Security Exec Calls for Tightened Data Privacy

Facebook’s outgoing chief information security officer Alex Stamos has urged the social media company to rethink its approach to data privacy. The executive, whose exit has been widely reported on for months, wrote an internal note to staff that called for changes in how Facebook approaches data...

Facebook Suspends Analytics Firm Over Surveillance Concerns

Online data privacy is again being thrust into the spotlight after Facebook announced Friday it suspended yet another analytics firm due to concerns about the collection and sharing of data. The company is launching an investigation into whether Boston-based Crimson Hexagon’s collection of public...