Equifax Was Warned
Last year, a security researcher alerted Equifax that anyone could have stolen the personal data of all Americans. The company failed to heed the warning. Continue reading Equifax Was Warned
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Dell Lost Control of Key Customer Support Domain for a Month in 2017
A Web site set up by PC maker Dell Inc. to help customers recover from malicious software and other computer maladies may have been hijacked for a few weeks this summer by people who specialize in deploying said malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
There is a program installed on virtually all Dell computers called “Dell Backup and Recovery Application.” It’s designed to help customers restore their data and computers to their pristine, factory default state should a problem occur with the device. That backup and recovery program periodically checks a rather catchy domain name — DellBackupandRecoveryCloudStorage.com — which until recently was central to PC maker Dell’s customer data backup, recovery and cloud storage solutions.
Sometime this summer, DellBackupandRecoveryCloudStorage.com was suddenly snatched away from a longtime Dell contractor for a month and exposed to some questionable content. More worryingly, there are signs the domain may have been pushing malware before Dell’s contractor regained control over it. Continue reading Dell Lost Control of Key Customer Support Domain for a Month in 2017
IRS chief: assume your identity has been stolen
American’s should “assume their data is already in the hands of criminals and ‘act accordingly.’”
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A week in security (October 9 – October 15)
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Compromised analytics provider made Equifax’s site point to malware
Yesterday’s revelation that Equifax’s credit report assistance Web page was spotted redirecting visitors to malware resulted in the company temporarily disabling the page and starting an investigation. Once the investigation was concluded, the company said that they didn’t get hacked. Instead, that the malicious script was part of the code of a third-party vendor that Equifax uses to collect website performance data. “Despite early media reports, Equifax can confirm that its systems were not compromised … More → Continue reading Compromised analytics provider made Equifax’s site point to malware
Equifax website hit by malvertising – will the pain never end?
The proverb “it never rains but that it pours” could have been written for Equifax – this time, malvertising. Continue reading Equifax website hit by malvertising – will the pain never end?
Equifax Takes Down Compromised Page Redirecting to Adware Download
Equifax has temporarily taken down one of its consumer-facing credit report services after the webpage was compromised and serving adware via a phony Flash Player download. Continue reading Equifax Takes Down Compromised Page Redirecting to Adware Download
Equifax Website Hacked To Deliver Malware-bearing Flash Update
By Waqas
In May 2017, the website of renowned credit reporting service
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Equifax: Umm, actually hackers stole records of 15.2 million Brits, not 400,000
Equifax has confirmed that a recent data breach exposed a file containing 15.2 million UK personal information records.
David Bisson reports.
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Equifax: Hackers got personal data on Brits, too
Hackers who stole Social Security numbers and other poorly secured personal data for 143 million Americans from Equifax also got away with the personal information of nearly 700,000 British citizens as well, the credit reporting company said Tuesday. A computer file containing 15.2 million records of British citizens was “attacked” during the hack, which began in May, Equifax UK Ltd. said in a statement. “Regrettably this file contained data relating to actual consumers as well as sizeable test datasets, duplicates and spurious fields, ” the statement went on. The company said it would be writing to a total of 693,665 consumers whose email address, phone number, driver’s license number or username and password combination had been stolen. They will be offered free credit monitoring and other identity protection tools. The exact breakdown is: 12,086 consumers had an email address associated with their Equifax.co.uk accessed. 14,961 consumers had portions of their Equifax.co.uk membership […]
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