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The Telecom Digest for May 26, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 94 : "text" Format
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Researchers find a global botnet of infected PoS systems (Monty Solomon)
IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system (Monty Solomon)
eBay finally prompts users to change passwords after huge data breach (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:57:57 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Researchers find a global botnet of infected PoS systems
Message-ID: <p06240829cfa817ab4693@[10.0.1.3]>

Researchers find a global botnet of infected PoS systems
The botnet contained almost 1,500 compromised point-of-sale and other
retail systems from 36 countries, researchers from IntelCrawler said

By Lucian Constantin
May 23, 2014
Computerworld

IDG News Service - Security researchers uncovered a global
cybercriminal operation that infected with malware almost 1,500
point-of-sale (POS) terminals, accounting systems and other retail
back-office platforms from businesses in 36 countries.

The infected systems were joined together in a botnet that
researchers from cybercrime intelligence firm IntelCrawler dubbed
Nemanja. The researchers believe the attackers behind the operation
might be from Serbia.

The size of the botnet and the worldwide distribution of infected
systems brings into perspective the security problems faced by
retailers from around the world, problems that were also highlighted
by the recent PoS breaches at several large U.S. retailers.

...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248541/Researchers_find_a_global_botnet_of_infected_PoS_systems




Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:59:18 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system
Message-ID: <p0624082acfa818125eb1@[10.0.1.3]>

IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system
Ricky Joe Mitchell must also pay more than $500,000 in restitution and fines

By Chris Kanaracus
May 21, 2014
Computerworld

IDG News Service - A former network engineer for oil and gas company 
EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after 
pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company's systems badly 
enough to disrupt its business operations for a month.

Ricky Joe Mitchell of Charleston, West Virginia, must also pay 
$428,000 in restitution and a $100,000 fine, according to an 
announcement this week from U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin's office.

In June 2012, Mitchell found out he was going to be fired from 
EnerVest and in response he decided to reset the company's servers to 
their original factory settings. He also disabled cooling equipment 
for EnerVest's systems and disabled a data-replication process.

...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248499/IT_pro_gets_4_years_in_prison_for_sabotaging_ex_employer_39_s_system




Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 17:56:19 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: eBay finally prompts users to change passwords after huge data  breach
Message-ID: <p06240828cfa817653633@[10.0.1.3]>

eBay finally prompts users to change passwords after huge data breach
Notice begins to appear on home page of ebay.com

By Gregg Keizer
May 23, 2014

Computerworld - eBay on Friday put a notice on its home page urging 
users to change their passwords after security experts had criticized 
the auction site for failing to promptly alert customers about a 
massive break-in and data theft.

The notice, which includes a link to the password reset process, was 
part of the advice eBay had given its users on Wednesday to 
immediately change their passwords.

...

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248540/eBay_finally_prompts_users_to_change_passwords_after_huge_data_breach






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