Ex-Cardinals exec: Yes, I hacked rival Astros’ database
Chris Correa, former scouting director, confessed to five counts of hacking and prying out confidential information.
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With a series of major hacks, China builds a database on Americans – Washington Post
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With a series of major hacks, China builds a database on Americans
Washington Post China is building massive databases of Americans' personal information by hacking government agencies and U.S. health-care companies, using a high-tech tactic to achieve an age-old goal of espionage: recruiting spies or gaining more information on an … Chinese Hackers Behind Breach at Insurers Are Also Responsible for … OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach of US government data Medical data, cybercriminals' holy grail, now espionage target |
SAP patches login flaw in ASE database
SAP patched a flaw on Thursday that could allow an attacker to take complete control over a database, according to security vendor Trustwave.
The flaw (CVE-2014-6284) affects SAP’s Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), a relational database for Unix, Linux and Windows systems, designed for high volumes of data-rich transactions. Vulnerable versions are 12.5, 15, 15.5, 15.7 and 16.
TrustWave’s Martin Rakhmanov, a senior security researcher, found an error in the challenge and response mechanism used to access ASE. The account access gained is not a privileged account, but TrustWave said other flaws allow the privileges to be escalated to that of a database administrator.
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Domino’s Pizza hacked, customer database held to ransom
Hacker group, Rex Mundi, who claim to have cracked a Domino’s Pizza database say they have stolen the details of more than 650,000 dough-loving customers. It says the data will be released later today if the pizza chain fails to pay a ransom of €30,000.
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