Ariana Grande's Instagram Account Hacked This time, hackers managed to take control of Ariana Grande's Instagram account, and the attackers started posting racist and homophobic messages, while also threatening other American stars to breach their accounts. While no hacking group or individual claimed the attack, the Instagram account is believed to have been breached by a fan of Selena Gomez and Kylie Jenner, as reported by clevver. The main evidence pointing in this regard is some of the messages posted by the hacker, who called for Ariana Grande fans to follow two different accounts whose profile picture showing the two stars.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/07/ariana-grandes-instagram-account-hacked/ Cisco accidentally loses customer data due to Meraki cloud configuration error Cisco has admitted to losing some customers' data last week due to a Meraki cloud configuration data. The company revealed in an update on Friday that its engineering team made a configuration change on the North American object storage service that led to some of its customer data being deleted in the process. Meraki is a subsidiary of Cisco that offers cloud-managed information technologies for wireless, switching, security, EMM, communications and security cameras via its web-based dashboard interface.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/07/cisco-accidentally-loses-customer-data-due-meraki-cloud-configuration-error/ China's web users fear losing tools to bypass 'Great Firewall' Enterprising internet users in China fear the tools they use to tunnel through the country's "Great Firewall" may soon disappear, as Beijing tightens its grip on the web. Tens of millions of people are estimated to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass Chinese internet restrictions -- getting access to blocked websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Beijing has for years turned a blind eye to these holes in its Great Firewall, but recent events suggest the virtual tunnels may soon be bricked up. In January China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced it would be banning the use of unlicensed providers of the services.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/07/chinas-web-users-fear-losing-tools-bypass-great-firewall/ Forget sexy zero-days. Siemens medical scanners can be pwned by two-year-old-days Hackers can exploit trivial flaws in network-connected Siemens' medical scanners to run arbitrary malicious code on the equipment. These remotely accessible vulnerabilities lurk in all of Siemens' positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) scanners running Microsoft Windows 7. These are the molecular imaging gizmos used to detect tumors, look for signs of brain disease, and so on, in people. They pick up gamma rays from radioactive tracers injected into patients, and perform X-ray scans of bodies.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/07/forget-sexy-zero-days-siemens-medical-scanners-can-pwned-two-year-old-days/ Cuscal behind Woolworths duplicate payment bungle Woolworths has apologised to customers on Monday following reports that some experienced a second batch of payments withdrawn from their bank accounts. A Woolworths spokesperson told ZDNet it received confirmation from Cuscal, one of its payment processors that services financial institutions, that due to an error at its datacentre, Woolworths customers may have received incorrect transactions on accounts processed by Cuscal. "We are working closely with Cuscal and can confirm any payment errors will be corrected as soon as possible," the spokesperson added, offering its 1300 767 969 call centre number for customers to call if they have experienced the error
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