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    Exclamation Security breach/compromise - 2014

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    Snapchat leak - 4.6 million users ...
    - http://bgr.com/2014/01/01/snapchat-l...ers-usernames/
    Jan 1, 2014 - "Snapchat users beware: someone has posted the phone numbers and usernames of more than 4.6 million accounts on the site SnapchatDB*, freely available as an SQL dump or CSV text file for anyone to download. The last two digits of each phone number have been censored “in order to minimize spam and abuse”... This giant leak comes just days after Gibson Security’s latest interview in which the company warns of Snapchat’s vulnerabilities. According to Gibson Security, the Snapchat team had taken far too long to address some very serious issues with the coding of the software, and had left the application wide open to exploits that could compromise user information... SnapchatDB claims that the database represents “a vast majority of the Snapchat users”... “This information was acquired through the recently patched Snapchat exploit and is being shared with the public to raise awareness on the issue,” says the owner of SnapchatDB. “The company was too reluctant at patching the exploit until they knew it was too late and companies that we trust with our information should be more careful when dealing with it.”
    * UPDATE: SnapchatDB .info has been suspended and is no longer available.

    - http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9BU0K820131231
    Dec 31, 2013 - "Snapchat, Vine, and Candy Crush Saga earned coveted spots on smartphones this year, making them among the most downloaded apps of the year..."

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    Skype hacked to spread anti-MS messages
    - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01...soft_messages/
    2 Jan 2014 - "Entities claiming to represent the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have hacked Skype's social media presences and used them to post anti-Microsoft messages. Here's one of the defacements, from Skype's Twitter account.
    - http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/01/02/skype_twitter_hack.png
    ... Skype's blog was also accessed and quickly became host to posts calling for Skype to stop allowing the NSA to access its back end... Skype wrestled control of its social media properties back from the alleged SEA members. The VoIP service has since posted the following all-clear to Twitter.
    'You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today. No user info was compromised. We’re sorry for the inconvenience. 8:13 PM - 1 Jan 2014'..."

    - https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=17330
    Last Updated: 2014-01-01 23:00:26

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    Thumbs down Yahoo malware attack - greater than anticipated

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    Yahoo malware attack - greater than anticipated
    - http://bgr.com/2014/01/13/yahoo-malware-attack/
    Jan 13, 2014 - "The malware attack that took advantage of Yahoo’s Java-based ad network around Christmas Eve was far greater than anticipated, the company confirmed in a post*... on its help web pages. Initially believed to have affected only European users on January 3, 2014, the malware ad attacks were then said to have occurred during December 31, 2013 – January 3, 2014. But Yahoo on Friday revealed the attack actually took place between December 27, 2013 – January 3, 2014, and affected users -outside- of the European Union as well. It’s not clear how many users may have been affected by the hack..."
    * http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?local...nt&id=SLN22569
    Jan 10th, 2014

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    Security firm IDs malware used in Target attack
    - http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic..._Target_attack
    Jan 16, 2014 - " A security company that worked with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate the data breach at Target identified the malware used in the attack as a sophisticated derivative of a previously known Trojan program designed to steal data from Point-of-Sale (POS) systems. In a report released Thursday, iSight Partners identified the tool as Trojan.POSRAM, which it described as software that can find, store and transmit credit card and PIN numbers from POS systems. The Trojan is being used in a "persistent, wide ranging, and sophisticated" cyber campaign dubbed KAPTOXA targeting "many operators" of POS systems, the company warned. Some affected companies may not yet know they've been compromised or have already lost data, the iSight report noted... the POSRAM Trojan as a customized version of BlackPOS*, a piece of malware that has been available in the cyber underground since at least last February. Like BlackPOS, the POSRAM Trojan is designed to steal a card's magnetic stripe data while it is stored momentarily in a POS system's memory, just after a credit or debit card is swiped at the terminal. After infecting a POS terminal, the malware monitors the memory address spaces on the device for specific information. When it finds something of interest, the software saves the data to a local file and then transfers it to the attackers at preset times. It then is coded to delete the local file to cover its tracks... At the time the code was discovered, even fully updated antivirus tools would not have been able to detect the malware..."
    * http://www.symantec.com/connect/foru...abber-blackpos

    Malware Targeting Point of Sale Systems
    - https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-002A
    Jan 2, 2014
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    KAPTOXA POS Report
    - http://www.isightpartners.com/2014/0...os-report-faq/
    Jan. 16, 2014

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    Exclamation 'ChewBacca' hacks, Yahoo reports breach

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    'ChewBacca' hacks targeted retailers in 11 countries: RSA
    - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A0T21120140131
    Jan 31, 2014 - "A cyber criminal ring targeting small retailers in 11 countries stole data on 49,000 payment cards using a malicious software known as "ChewBacca" before the operation was shut down... RSA FirstWatch disclosed the attacks on Thursday on its website. It said the firm's researchers uncovered the ring, whose victims included small companies in the United States, Russia, Canada and Australia. They managed to steal details from some 24 million payment card transactions over about two months, according to RSA... The findings from RSA show that the recent spate of attacks extend outside the United States. "The end game is to gain credit card information, so the hackers are going to go wherever it is easiest to get that information," said Will Gragido, senior manager with RSA FirstWatch, the threat research arm of RSA Security. He said his firm provided the FBI with data on the "ChewBacca" operation, including the location of a command-and-control server used by the hackers on Wednesday. That server was shut down on Thursday, according to Gragido... RSA said the hackers used a relatively new piece of malicious software known as -ChewBacca- designed to infect computers such as the point-of-sales systems that process credit card transactions."

    - https://blogs.rsa.com/rsa-uncovers-n...l-information/
    Jan 30, 2014

    - https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/2..._based_Malware
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    Yahoo reports breach of some user accounts
    - http://www.cnbc.com/id/101378748
    30 Jan 2014 | 5:33 PM ET - "Yahoo reported on Thursday that some of its users' e-mail accounts may have been targeted in a security breach of a third-party database... The company notified users that may have been affected to reset their passwords. It has also implemented a second sign-in verification to allow users to re-secure their accounts..."

    - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A0T21H20140131
    Jan 30, 2014

    - https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=17543
    Last Updated: 2014-01-31 00:43:22 UTC

    - http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/7508353...hoo-mail-users

    - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2080.html

    Password Re-Use is the Problem...
    - http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2014/0...attack-on.html
    Jan 31, 2014

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    Thumbs down Over 1 Million Emails and Passwords Exposed

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    Over 1 Million Emails and Passwords Exposed ...
    - https://www.trusteer.com/blog/the-se...swords-exposed
    Feb 19, 2014 - "The latest media outlet targeted by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is Forbes .com. The hacktivist group was able to breach a database containing email address and password combinations for over a million user accounts, including Forbes contributors. Although the passwords were one-way encrypted, the media outlet recommended users change their passwords. To prove that it carried out the attack and breached the database, the SEA defaced three online articles. It seems that attackers and cybercriminals are increasingly targeting users’ login credentials, which will provide them access to various systems. Only two weeks ago we learned that Yahoo’s email system was breached using credentials stolen from a third party... With login credentials to the user’s account, it is possible to access information stored within the user's account. It is not known what type of information Forbes .com stored about its users. The concern would be exposure of personal and financial data. Credentials to contributors' accounts may actually provide access to systems used by the media outlet to publish news, allowing attackers to post fake news alerts... Users should change their login passwords and avoid reusing password across multiple websites and applications. Organizations should educate employees about the risk in re-using passwords for logging into multiple applications..."

    - http://www.databreaches.net/syrian-e...and-user-data/
    Feb 15, 2014

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    Thumbs down Target failed to act on early alert ...

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    Target failed to act on early alert ...
    - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A2C14F20140313
    Mar 13, 2014 - "Target Corp's security software detected potentially malicious activity during last year's massive data breach, but its staff decided -not- to take immediate action... The disclosure came after Bloomberg Businessweek* reported on Thursday that Target's security team in Bangalore had received alerts from a FireEye Inc security system on November 30 after the attack was launched and sent them to Target headquarters in Minneapolis... The FireEye reports indicated malicious software had appeared in the system... The alert from FireEye labeled the threat with the generic name "malware.binary"... experts said that they believed it was likely that Target's security team received hundreds of such alerts on a daily basis, which would have made it tough to have singled out that threat as being particularly malicious..."
    * http://www.businessweek.com/articles...edit-card-data
    Mar 13, 2014 - "... On Saturday, Nov. 30, the hackers had set their traps and had just one thing to do before starting the attack: plan the data’s escape route. As they uploaded exfiltration malware to move stolen credit card numbers — first to staging points spread around the U.S. to cover their tracks, then into their computers in Russia — FireEye spotted them. Bangalore got an alert and flagged the security team in Minneapolis. And then …
    Nothing happened.
    For some reason, Minneapolis didn’t react to the sirens. Bloomberg Businessweek spoke to more than 10 former Target employees familiar with the company’s data security operation, as well as eight people with specific knowledge of the hack and its aftermath, including former employees, security researchers, and law enforcement officials. The story they tell is of an alert system, installed to protect the bond between retailer and customer, that worked beautifully. But then, Target stood by as 40 million credit card numbers — and 70 million addresses, phone numbers, and other pieces of personal information — gushed out of its mainframes..."

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    Thumbs down Canada taxpayer data stolen in Heartbleed breach

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    Canada taxpayer data stolen in Heartbleed breach
    - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A3D0XZ20140414
    Apr 14, 2014 - "Canada's tax-collection agency reported on Monday that the private information of some 900 people had been stolen from its computer systems as a result of vulnerabilities caused by the 'Heartbleed' bug. The breach allowed someone to extract social insurance numbers, which are used for employment and gaining access to government benefits, and possibly some other data, the Canada Revenue Agency said... Police are investigating and the country's privacy commissioner has been informed, it said. Right in the heart of tax-filing season, the CRA shut down access to its online services last Wednesday because of the bug, which is found in widely used Web encryption technology..."

    Canadian charged in 'Heartbleed' attack on tax agency
    - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A3F1KS20140416
    Apr 16, 2014 - "Canadian police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in connection with exploiting the "Heartbleed" bug to steal taxpayer data from a government website, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Wednesday. In what appeared to be the first report of an attack using a flaw in software known as OpenSSL, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) said this week that about 900 social insurance numbers and possibly other data had been compromised as a result of an attack on its site. The suspect, Stephen Solis-Reyes, was arrested at his home in London, Ontario on Wednesday and faces criminal charges of unauthorized use of computer and mischief in relation to data... Police seized Solis-Reyes computer equipment and scheduled his court appearance for July 17, 2014..."
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    - https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/hea...update-v3.html
    April 13, 2014 7:20 PM - "Over the weekend, an independent security researcher contacted Akamai about some defects in the software we use for memory allocation around SSL keys. We discussed Friday how we believed this had provided our SSL keys with protection against Heartbleed and had contributed the code back to the community. The code that we had contributed back was, as we noted, not a full patch, but would be a starting point for improving the openssl codebase. In short: we had a bug. An RSA key has 6 critical values; our code would only attempt to protect 3 parts of the secret key, but does not protect 3 others. In particular, we only try to protect d, p, and q, but not d mod (p-1), d mod (q-1), or q^{-1} mod p. These intermediate extra values (the Chinese Remainder Theorem, or CRT, values) are calculated at key-generation time as a performance improvement. As the CRT values were not stored in the secure memory area, the possibility exists that these critical values for the SSL keys could have been exposed to an adversary exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability. Given any CRT value, it is possible to calculate all 6 critical values. As a result, we have begun the process of rotating all customer SSL keys/certificates. Some of these certificates will quickly rotate; some require extra validation with the certificate authorities and may take longer. In parallel, we are evaluating the other claims made by the researcher, to understand what actions we can take to improve our customer protection."

    - https://blogs.akamai.com/2014/04/hea...a-history.html
    April 16, 2014 - "In the interest of providing an update to the community on Akamai's work to address issues around the Heartbleed vulnerability, we've put together this outline as a brief summary:
    • Akamai, like all users of OpenSSL, was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
    • Akamai disabled TLS heartbeat functionality before the Heartbleed vulnerability was publicly disclosed.
    • In addition, Akamai went on to evaluate whether Akamai's unique secure memory arena may have provided SSL key protection during the vulnerability window when we had been vulnerable; it would not have.
    • Akamai is reissuing customer SSL certificates, due to the original Heartbleed vulnerability...
    We are currently reviewing a revised version of our secure memory arena with some external researchers and developers. Once we are more confident that it more closely achieves its goals, we will contribute this code to the community. We also plan to evaluate how we can better collaborate and support the open source community."

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    Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report
    - http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/
    "The 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) casts new light on threats — taking 10 years of forensic data and finding that 92% of these can be categorized into nine basic attack patterns. This approach also helps identify primary threats to your industry, which you can analyze to reinforce your defenses."

    - http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2014/insider/

    Infographic
    - http://www.verizonenterprise.com/res...2014_en_xg.pdf

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    Thumbs down Bitly: Regarding Your Account...

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    Bitly: Regarding Your Account ...
    - http://blog.bitly.com/post/851692171...-bitly-account
    UPDATE #4 - MAY 11 at 11:33AM EDT: We are sending an email to all users from the domain bitlysupport .com outlining the steps to secure your account. If you have already followed the steps to secure your account, you do not need to do so again.
    UPDATE #3 - MAY 9 at 2:45PM EDT: We have updated this post to address questions regarding the Bitly iPhone app.
    UPDATE #2 - MAY 9 at 10:25AM EDT: "We have updated this post to explain what specifically was compromised and we’re encouraging all of our users to secure their Bitly accounts by following the recommendations listed below."
    UPDATE #1 - MAY 8 at 8:32PM EDT: "We have updated the section of this post regarding users who have Twitter or Facebook accounts connected to their Bitly accounts.
    We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised; specifically, users’ email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens. We have no indication at this time that any accounts have been accessed without permission. We have taken steps to ensure the security of all accounts, including disconnecting all users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts..."
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    OAuth, OpenID Security Issues Could Leak Data, Redirect Users
    - http://atlas.arbor.net/briefs/index#-527940361
    Elevated Severity
    9 May 2014

    - http://www.databreaches.net/urgent-s...bitly-account/
    May 8, 2014

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