Evelyn Chang reports: Your most trustworthy apps may be at risk. Researchers say they have found a way to hack Gmail apps with a 92 percent success rate. In a paper being presented Friday at the Usenix cybersecurity conference, the engineers said they also could steal check images from a Chase app with an 83…
Category: Breaches
Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
Kevin Poulsen reports: White hat hacker Ben Caudill is halfway through his sandwich when he casually reaches over to his iPhone, swipes the screen a few times, then holds it up to me. “Is that you?” he asks. It is, but nobody was supposed to know. He’s showing me one of my posts to Secret,…
NZ: Blogger Cameron Slater is facing prosecution for breaching the privacy of an Auckland businessman
Back in 2011 and over on DataBreaches.net, I covered the leak of Labour Party donors by a blogger, Cameron Slater. The database included “a mailing list containing the names and email addresses of about 18,000 supporters and a list of hundreds of recent online donations, complete with names and amounts given.” Slater denied any hacking…
NZ: Police warning over computer gaming hackers targeting children
John Morecomb reports: Police have issued a warning about popular kids’ computer game Minecraft after an Avalon family was hacked by a person living overseas. The family’s 13-year-old son had been playing the game with a person in New Zealand for 12 months but the pair fell out, police said. The NZ gamer then accessed…