Toby Sterling of Associated Press reports on a breach that does not directly involve personally identifiable information, but has great potential to do so: The Dutch government said Saturday it cannot guarantee the security of its own websites, days after the private company it uses to authenticate them admitted it was hacked. An official also…
Month: September 2011
700 accounts leaked from letsbefamous.com by @BlackHatGhosts
BlackHatGhosts have been leaking a fair bit of data and personal information today with one of the leaks contianing 700 accounts and a few admin accounts, the other leaks only contains emails and phone numbers from 2 website. The first leak comes from letsbefamous.com and is usernames, emails, passwords with passwords being encrypted. https://pastebin.com/U3kK2DG3 2nd leak…
Cleveland institute of music hacked again by Phsy
Phsy aka @stramble has dumb more administration details from the website https://cim.edu. Now this was hacked recently to and a different bunch of information was leaked. The question has to be asked, what the hell are they doing about the internet security? seems not a dam thing. I hope you are happy to all the people…
Republic of Tajikistan Parliament website hacked and defaced
The Republic of Tajikistan has become one of the latest governments to be hacked and defaced in a ongoing cyber war. The Tajikistan Parliament website was the target and has come of 2nd best with the hackers leaving a message. The domain is https://parlament.tj and a mirror can be found on Zone-H
Breach Notification: Time for a Wake Up Call
Mark G. McCreary has an article on CIO Insight, “Breach Notification: Time for a Wake Up Call,” that discusses how the Epsilon breach produced a seismic change in what kinds of breaches now get reported. You can read his article here.
Luton Borough Council improves security after detecting a flaw in their protocols (updated)
There was no press release issued, but the Information Commissioner’s Office site notes: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Luton Borough Council. This follows a self reported breach concerning a flaw in the encryption function of a number of Council issue memory sticks. The flaw could allow memory…