Epsilon Interactive, the US online marketing company whose data breach last year sparked an investigation into Dell Australia, has been caught out by a flawed fix for weak cryptographic keys that are used to verify the authenticity of emails it sends on behalf of clients.
Hacked email marketing vendor Epsilon has implemented a “white list” of IP addresses that will be allowed to access its email platform to prevent a repeat of its recent mega breach.
Seems that the recent Epsilon breach has rankled a couple members of the U.S. Senate who are now pushing for further investigation into the irritating violation of privacy.
Michael Cooney | 16 Apr | Read more
A press feeding frenzy followed the somewhat vague April Fools Day announcement by Epsilon Data Management that someone had hacked into its systems and stolen a bunch of email addresses. The addresses were of people who had "opted in" for email marketing by a bunch of major vendors such as Target and Red Roof Inns, and many of the vendors sent announcements of the breach to their customers (I got such an announcement from a vendor I had purchased a present from for my wife. The announcement did not say all that much, essentially it told me to "be careful".).
Scott Bradner | 14 Apr | Read more
Most of the time I only hear from my credit card companies when I owe them money or when they want to sell me a new service. That's changed; now I'm being bombarded with notes telling me that a company I never heard of has been successfully hacked and these still unknown bad guys now have my name and e-mail address -- and maybe more.
Bill Snyder | 12 Apr | Read more