Dennis Fisher writes: It’s been an ugly year so far for the security industry. In fact, if you’re looking at it objectively, almost nothing has gone right in the last six months. The long list of attacks this year–including RSA, Sony, Epsilon, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup and many others–coupled with the emergence of amorphous hacking groups like LulzSec and Anonymous on…
Month: July 2011
WA: Clark College issues alert after potential security breach
Fox12 News reports: An alert has been issued because of a potential database security breach at Clark College in Vancouver. An email, sent out to employees of the school, stated there was unauthorized access to college computer records that resulted in the potential disclosure of some faculty and student information. School authorities are encouraging people…
Commissioner says Saskatchewan 'bedevilled' by privacy breaches
Jennifer Graham reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says the province is “bedevilled” by a large number of intrusions into people’s personal information. Gary Dickson said in his annual report released Monday that his office opened 47 investigations into privacy breaches at government institutions over the last year. “What we often find is that it’s not somebody…
Fair Political Practices Commission Leaks from Connexion Hack
Connexion hacks team has been busy today with a leaked database from the Fair Political Practices comminssion. They have released the following statement. Dear Internetz, Our name is the Connexion Hack Team. We have hacked your website, https://www.ffpc.ca.gov because it needed to have a checkup with the SecDoctors. We have found many errors with your website…
OCSO tango down for Independence day attacks from Anonymous
UPDATES: OCSO Internet service provider has also been taken offline to prolong the server downtime for OCSO Tweet: As a bonus to taking down ocso.com – Their internet provider, embarqservices.net , is currently also down. Happy 4th! Well its, on 4th july one of the biggest days in America, we are set to see sites…
Independence Day for Anonymous in Operation Tennessee
Anonymous has had many operations going recently and even alot more attacks then the normal scale with anonymous growing day by day. Operation Tennessee has attacked and taken down Tennessee governor Bill Haslam’s website in a corridianted attack, The site didnt last long after the attack started and anonymous has plans to keep it down pretty much all day,…