A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news including weather presenter fails, massive hacks and exposed data. Plus we have a extra special scary nuclear power station story. Just the usual for a Friday morning. 🙂
- ‘No password’ database error exposes info on 93 million Mexican voters (The Register)
- 7 million unsalted MD5 passwords leaked by Minecraft community Lifeboat (ArsTechnica)
- Exclusive: SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases (Yahoo Security)
- Facebook Login Flaw Earns Researcher $5,000
- Kaspersky cracks CryptXXX, throws lifeline to ransomware victims (The Register)
- Legitimate Facebook Domain Serves Phishing Page (SecurityWeek)
- Linux infosec outfit does a Torvalds, rageblocks innocent vuln spotter (The Register)
- Mozilla slings Firefox patches at flaw found by GCHQ’s infosec arm (The Register)
- Net scum lock ancient Androids, force users to buy iTunes gift cards (The Register)
- Panama Papers graph database cracked open for world+dog (The Register)
- Rainbow Six: Siege reportedly reveals your IP address to potential attackers (ArsTechnica)
- Vanity dating site BeautifulPeople popped (The Register)
- Website extortionists rake in over $100,000 without lifting a finger (The Register)
- Concerns Raised Over Malware Infecting German Nuclear Plant (SecurityWeek)
Weekly Cyber Security News 29/04/2016
