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2013 "Annual Computer Security Applications Conference" Addresses …
Marketwired (press release) WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Sep 30, 2013) – The attacks and hacks on today's digital networks have become more insidious and pervasive by the day; and they also threaten the physical systems and critical infrastructure that they interconnect and run … |
Websites Pinterest and StumbleUpon have patched critical vulnerabilities in their services that could have enabled an attacker to discover users’ email addresses.
Naked Security – Sophos
E-mail addresses, user names, and password data for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—estimated to be 1.82 million accounts—were exposed in a security breach hitting the company responsible for maintaining the freely available, open-source operating system.
The Ubuntu Forums were closed Saturday evening, following the discovery that the site’s homepage was defaced by someone who managed to gain privileged access to its underlying servers. To their credit, administrators with Canonical, the for-profit company that markets Ubuntu, quickly issued an advisory that warned users to change their credentials immediately. The forums remained inaccessible at time of writing on Sunday afternoon.
“While the passwords were not stored in plain text, good practice dictates that users should assume the passwords have been accessed and change them,” Ubuntu CEO Jane Silber wrote in an updated advisory. “If users used the same password on other services, they should immediately change that password.”
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Andrew Auernheimer has been sentenced for the federal crimes of obtaining the personal data of over 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s publicly accessible website. Besides his prison sentence, he’s facing 3 years of probation and, together with another convicted hacker, paying restitution of $ 73,000.
Naked Security – Sophos
