Yahoo! Hacker Sentenced; Coke Opens Up a Can of Data Breach

Fortune 500 breaches seem to be a theme this week. As the Yahoo attacker responsible for the company’s 500 million-account data breach has been sentenced, Coca-Cola disclosed an insider stole the information of 8,000 employees. A Canadian man who pleaded guilty last year to a “hacking-for-hire”...

FSB Officers, Criminal Hackers Indicted in Yahoo Breach

The U.S. Department of Justice today indicted four individuals, including two Russian FSB officers, it alleges are connected to a massive breach of Yahoo’s network and the theft of information associated with 500 million accounts. One of the men, Karim Baratov, 22, was arrested March 14 in Canada...

US Charges Two Russian Spies & Two Hackers For Hacking 500 Million Yahoo Accounts

The 2014 Yahoo hack disclosed late last year that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts was believed to be carried out by a state-sponsored hacking group. Now, two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal hackers have been charged by the US government in connection with the 2014...

On Yahoo's One Billion Breach, a DDoS-For-Hire Crackdown and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches. Show notes: Yahoo Discloses Data From 1 Billion Accounts Stolen in 2013 Beta Firmware Updates Available fo...

On the Yahoo Breach, WhatsApp-Facebook, and Zerodium's $1.5M Bounty

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember302016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Questions Mount Around Yahoo Breach

As Yahoo continues to investigate the biggest data breach in history, pressure is mounting on the company to admit when it knew about the attack, whether there was a delay in reporting it, and also about how it implements cryptography to secure data it’s responsible for. Security company Venafi...

On the Yahoo Breach, the Security of IoT Forum

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the massive Yahoo breach, this week’s Security of Things Forum, Mamba ransomware, and the privacy implications of Google Allo. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember232016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

How SQL Injection Attacks Work

SQL injection attacks have been going on for years, and the vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques are well-understood and widely discussed. However, they’re still quite prevalent and are used in a variety of scenarios. One recent example is the attack on a Yahoo site that resulted in a brea...

Study: SQL Attacks Jump 69 Percent In Recent Months

The number of SQL attacks jumped by nearly two thirds earlier this year according to cloud hosting firm FireHost who recorded over 450,000 blocked SQL injection attacks between the first and second quarter this year. According to a report in ComputerWeekly, the firm claimed this week that it...