Hacker News
- SendGrid Email Breach Was Used to Attack Coinbase, a Bitcoin Exchange http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/sendgrid-email-breach-was-used-to-attack-coinbase-a-bitcoin-exchange/ 2 comments
- Hacktivist group Anonymous Malaysia resurfaces, vows cyber-attack against govt over data breaches https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2021/01/25/hacktivist-group-anonymous-malaysia-resurfaces-vows-cyber-attack-against-go/1943943 3 comments worldnews
- Lok Sabha security breach on Parliament attack anniversary: What we know so far https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/lok-sabha-security-breach-two-people-jump-inside-lok-sabha-chamber-2001-parliament-attack-anniversary-2475446-2023-12-13 2 comments india
- Twilio discloses data breach after SMS phishing attack on employees https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twilio-discloses-data-breach-after-sms-phishing-attack-on-employees/ 7 comments privacy
- Russian Military Claims Ukrainian Attackers Just Breached Their Border https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-military-claims-ukrainian-attackers-just-breached-their-border?source=articles&via=rss 5 comments politics
- US Capitol attack report finds intelligence, military and police failings | US Capitol breach https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/us-capitol-attack-report-finds-intelligence-military-and-police-failings 35 comments politics
- Trump’s first indoor rally since June defies Covid laws, attacks Biden | Nevada event in front of a mostly mask-less crowd breaches state’s 50-person limit and Trump administration’s coronavirus guidelines https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/14/trumps-first-indoor-rally-since-june-defies-covid-laws-attacks-biden 19 comments politics
- Israel's military said it had thwarted an attempted malware attack by Hamas to gain access to soldiers' mobile phones by using seductive pictures of young women. The phones of a few dozen soldiers were affected, but the military "does not assess that there has been a substantial breach https://www.france24.com/en/20200216-israel-says-hamas-used-attractive-women-in-thwarted-cyberattack 4 comments worldnews
- IDF attacks Hamas in Gaza after fresh breach of ceasefire https://www.timesofisrael.com/rocket-sirens-sound-in-beersheba-idf-investigating/ 37 comments worldnews
- Hackers breach 20 Texas government agencies in ransomware cyber attack https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2019/08/17/20-texas-jurisdictions-hit-coordinated-ransomware-attack-state-says 342 comments technology
- Hackers breach 20 Texas government agencies in ransomware cyber attack https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2019/08/17/20-texas-jurisdictions-hit-coordinated-ransomware-attack-state-says 30 comments politics
- South Korea says it’s responding to hacking attack that stole names and addresses of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors who resettled in the South...notifying affected defectors after discovering last week that one of its computers had been breached sometime around November. http://time.com/5489662/south-korea-north-korea-hacking-defectors/ 4 comments worldnews
- EU chief Juncker says 'press freedom has limits', in attack on British media - European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has insisted there must be limits to the freedom of the press, accusing British media of breaching politicians’ human rights. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jean-claude-juncker-press-freedom-media-human-rights-brexit-david-cameron-eu-a8571906.html 16 comments worldnews
- Will Facebook be fined after hack attack?. The social network could face a hefty fine if it is found to have breached data protection rules. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45706809 3 comments technology
- DNS Rebinding Headless Browsers: Breaching the perimeter and attacking cloud environments https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/from-http-referer-to-aws-security-credentials/ 3 comments netsec
- Singapore disconnects healthcare computers from the Internet after cyber attack - Singapore has disconnected computers from the internet at public healthcare centers to prevent cyberattacks of the kind that caused its worst breach of personal data, a government official said on Tuesday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-cyberattack/singapore-disconnects-healthcare-computers-from-the-internet-after-cyber-attack-iduskbn1ke15x 4 comments technology
- Rupture: A compression side-channel attack framework (BREACH) https://ruptureit.com/index.html 3 comments netsec
- Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach At Its Service, Says 500 Million Users Impacted In What It Believes Was a State-Sponsored Attack https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/09/22/095255/yahoo-confirms-massive-data-breach-hundreds-of-millions-of-users-impacted-updated 144 comments technology
- Why are Russian hackers going after US news organizations? The New York Times has been the target of cyber breaches before, but intelligence officials say this latest attack suggests that Russians are trying to influence the US political system. http://www.csmonitor.com/world/2016/0824/why-are-russian-hackers-going-after-us-news-organizations 4 comments politics
- CIA chief invokes Paris attack to justify breach of privacy https://www.rt.com/news/332461-cia-chief-encryption-paris/ 5 comments privacy
- Less than a month into filing season, IRS systems breached. Attack successfully collected >20% of IRS filing PIN numbers http://www.ocregister.com/articles/tax-704004-irs-taxpayers.html 22 comments technology
- Palestine FM slams international silence towards Israel's attacks."How can the international community remain silent in the face of these crimes, acting blind and deaf whenever Israel breaches international laws and treaties," http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/08/c_134693728.htm? 9 comments worldnews
- Cyber Attack: 4.6 Million Accounts on Scottrade have been breached http://www.statesmantribune.com/cyber-attack-4-6-million-accounts-on-scottrade-have-been-breached/3645/ 3 comments technology
- US agency in charge of power grid and nukes keeps getting breached; Records show cyberattackers successfully compromised the DOE 159 times between October 2010 and October 2014. 53 of the successful attacks were root compromises, meaning the attackers had administrator privileges. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/09/11/us-agency-in-charge-of-power-grid-and-nukes-keeps-getting-breached/ 104 comments technology
- US hit by 'massive data breach', US officials suspect that the cyber attack originated in China, US media outlets reported. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33017310 5 comments worldnews
- A Saudi-led coalition rained down missiles in Yemen from Friday into Saturday, an intense attack that a U.N. official called a breach of international humanitarian law. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/09/asia/saudi-airstrikes-yemen/index.html 38 comments worldnews
- Biggest ever data breach? Home Depot hack attack could involve 40 million payment cards http://www.itgovernanceusa.com/blog/biggest-ever-data-breach-home-depot-hack-attack-could-involve-40-million-payment-cards/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit 8 comments technology
- Host Based Protection - How could it have minimized or thwarted the Target Breach attack? http://security-musings.blogspot.ca/2014/06/what-if-target-had-followed-zero-trust.html 4 comments sysadmin
- Email Attack on Vendor Set Up Breach at Target http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/email-attack-on-vendor-set-up-breach-at-target/ 11 comments sysadmin
- BREACH: New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/gone-in-30-seconds-new-attack-plucks-secrets-from-https-protected-pages/ 7 comments technology
- The Obama administration is flatly denying a blaring British newspaper report that the U.S. diplomats in Libya were killed as a result of a “continuing security breach,” and that “credible information” about possible attacks had been ignored. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81198.html 34 comments worldnews
- Hague says Iran will face 'severe consequences' over embassy attack: Foreign secretary says despite apology Tehran had breached Vienna convention in failing to protect a diplomatic mission http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/29/iranian-students-storm-british-embassy 173 comments worldnews
- Sony: "We have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack." http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/27/qa-1-for-playstation-network-and-qriocity-services/ 7 comments reddit.com
- Screenshots from inside Anon operations show the group is mining the Gawker breach for a planned attack on U.S. and international government agencies. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/gawker-data-breach-could-lead-to-attacks-on-government-agencies.html 5 comments politics
- The alleged attacker behind the 2011 breach of kernel.org is arrested as details on the actual attack now emerge http://www.eweek.com/security/suspect-arrested-for-5-year-old-linux-kernel-organization-breach.html 48 comments linux
- AWS console breach leads to demise of service with “proven” backup plan. Code Spaces closes shop after attackers destroy Amazon-hosted customer data. http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/aws-console-breach-leads-to-demise-of-service-with-proven-backup-plan/ 7 comments sysadmin
- Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall is suing the parent company of the Champion sports apparel maker, calling the decision to drop his endorsement deal over his tweets about the death of Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a breach of contract. http://911blogger.com/news/2011-07-20/rashard-mendenhall-sues-ex-sponsor-champion-over-911-tweets 4 comments politics
- UK authorities breached obligations to protect citizens by not acting on details they had about the 7/7 bombers before the attacks, a court has heard. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8644476.stm 3 comments worldnews
- Attack hits base serving U.S. troops in Kenya Kenya's military said a pre-dawn attempt to breach security was repulsed, with at least four attackers killed. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/attack-hits-base-serving-u-s-troops-kenya-n1110526 7 comments worldnews
- US Open Men's Semifinal Previews: Daniil Medvedev vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime; Novak Djokovic vs. Alexander Zverev. 'Medvedev will likely range behind the baseline, put every ball he touches in play, and try to breach FAA’s attack with his typically pinpoint passes.' https://www.tennis.com/news/articles/us-open-men-s-semifinal-previews-daniil-medvedev-vs-felix-auger-aliassime-novak- 3 comments tennis