ISR News: T-Mobile Data Hacked for Ransom
Excerpts From NetworkWorld
T-mobile customers are awakening this morning to reports that hacker/extortionists have victimized the cellular carrier through a massive network breach resulting in the theft of untold amounts of corporate and customer data, which they’re threatening to sell to the highest bidder.T-Mobile says it is investigating.
ISR News: Hackers Destroy 100k Websites
Excerpts From The Register
A large internet service provider said data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.
Data Sniffing Trojans Hit European ATMs
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco for the Register UK
The malware logs the magnetic-stripe data and personal identification number of cards used at an infected machine and provides an intuitive interface for retrieving the information using the ATM’s receipt printer, according to analysts from Spider Labs, the research arm of security firm Trustwave. Since late 2007 or so, there have been at least 16 updates to the software, an indication that the authors are working hard to perfect their tool.
