The Marriott hotel empire’s Starwood guest reservation database has been subject to unauthorised access since 2014.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Busted! DOJ exposes huge ad-fraud operation, eight charged
The US Department of Justice has charged eight men with running a vast ad-fraud scheme.
Prisoners allegedly posed as underage girls in $560K sextortion scam
They allegedly victimized 442 military men by sending nude photos and then calling, pretending to be irate fathers or police.
57m Americans’ details leaked online by another misconfigured server
Misconfigured Elasticsearch servers spilled personal details on 57 million Americans, said reports this week.
Driver loses his car to hackers. TWICE.
He slapped a tracker on the new one and installed CCTV… which did a fine job of recording the thieves’ 90-second-long relay attack.
Creeps outed as massage app exposes database with workers’ comments
Popular massage-booking app Urban lets masseurs/masseuses log comments about creepy customers, and left its database wide open.
Google’s “deceitful” location tracking is against the law, say 7 EU groups
Seven European consumer organizations are planning to submit a complaint about Google’s location tracking activities to their data protection authorities.
Facial recognition traffic camera mistakes bus for famous woman
China’s air conditioning business queen Dong Mingzhu was recently outed as a jaywalker – thanks to an ad on the side of a bus.
Microsoft’s Office 365 MFA security crashes for second time
Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory has fallen over for the second time in a week.
Iranian hackers charged in the US for SamSam ransomware attacks
Two Iranians have been named in a US ransomware indictment – but given that they aren’t in the US, what happens next?