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CNet: An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly raking in an estimated AU$300,000 ($211,000) selling stolen login details online. The man was allegedly behind the website WickedGen.com, which boasted that it had 120,000 users and sold Netflix, Spotify and Hulu logins stolen from almost 1 million accounts...
BankInfoSecurity: Citrix Systems says it's investigating an apparent penetration of its network and theft of business documents by hackers. The technology giant, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says it was alerted to the suspected intrusion on Wednesday by the FBI and that it has launched a digital forensic investigation...
FinNews: The number of cyber attacks more than doubled last year. The attackers have also become much more aggressive in their approach and developed a strong will to persist with their campaigns. Cyber attacks on financial services firms that aimed to harm their infrastructure increased by 160 percent on a global scale over the past twelve months, according to Carbon Black and Optiv Security, two cyber security firms...
EuropeanUnion: The EU is stepping up its capacity to protect Europe against ever-increasing cyber threats by creating a new structure to pool and network its expertise in cybersecurity research, technology and industrial development. Today, the Council's Permanent Representatives Committee granted the Romanian presidency a mandate to start talks with the European Parliament on establishing a top knowledge base for cybersecurity called the European Cybersecurity Industrial...
MaltaToday: A confidential IT security report seen by MaltaToday shows that HSBC Malta was targeted by the hacking group EmpireMonkey months in advance before their successful hacking of Bank of Valletta.The group carried out a €13 million heist from the bank on 13 February, which led BOV to temporarily take its services offline...
SydneyMorningHerald: Foreign Minister Marise Payne has warned that the internet and cyber security are now so central to modern nations that serious hacking incidents could escalate into war. Senator Payne, during an address to the Lowy Institute in Sydney, noted that Australia had recently suffered its own serious assault on democratic institutions in the form of hack attacks on Parliament and the major political parties...
NikkeiAsianReview: Japan will work with dozens of other countries and organizations to create the Asia-Pacific's first alliance to fight cyberattacks, hoping to enhance the region's cybersecurity by enlisting Russia and China, Nikkei has learned. The move will involve members of the ASEAN Regional Forum, which includes Japan, the U.S., the E.U...
The target: Sonic Restaurants, an American fast-food chain.
The take: An estimated five million credit and debit payment card accounts were compromised as a result of the attack.
The attack vector: The success of the attack was attributed to the age of Sonic’s Point-of-Sale systems, which were no longer receiving security updates and which were inherently vulnerable to manipulation and data exfiltration.
AJC: A former executive at Atlanta-based Equifax has pleaded guilty to insider trading in the wake of the company’s massive data breach in 2017. Jun Ying, 43, former chief information officer of an Equifax division known as U.S. Information Solutions, sold more than $950,000 in stock in the weeks after the company discovered the breach but before the incident was made public...
BusinessStandard: Chinese hackers have targetted over two dozen universities in the US and Canada in an apparent bid to steal key maritime military research, The Wall Street Journal has reported. In all 27 universities -- including the University of Hawaii, the University of Washington, Penn State and Duke University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- were found to have been hit by the hackers, according to a report by cyber security firm iDefense which was accessed by The WSJ...
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