BreachYour own (not so) private IdahoGreg MastersSeptember 2, 2016A hacker, dubbing himself Mr. High, announced he had stolen the personal details of 6.5 million people across Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Kentucky.
Incident ResponseIoT home routers used to launch application-level DDoS attackJeremy Seth DavisSeptember 2, 2016Eight brands of IoT home routers were compromised and used to create botnets that launched an application-level DDoS attack against a website's multiple servers.
BreachUser data of 43.6M Last.fm subscribers made publicGreg MastersSeptember 1, 2016The user data of 43,570,999 subscribers to the Last.fm music site were posted on the pwned repository LeakedSource.
Application securityPaypal users targeted in new angler phishing scam, Proofpoint reportGreg MastersAugust 31, 2016Paypal users are being lured into clicking on a malicious link embedded in a tweet that appears to come from the financial transaction service.
Threat ManagementMillions of IoT devices enlisted into DDoS bots with Bashlite malwareGreg MastersAugust 31, 2016A family of malware targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to create distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets has been detected.
Compliance ManagementRental car or loaner flash drive? FTC warns rental cars store user dataRobert AbelAugust 31, 2016The Federal Trade Commission warned consumers to be careful when using the infotainment systems of rental cars.
BreachVoter database hack in Illinois by foreign intruder compromises info of 200KGreg MastersAugust 30, 2016Personal information of Illinois voters is believed to have been siphoned in a cyberattack, possibly of foreign origin.
