Associated Press reports: A Massachusetts man and his alleged Rhode Island accomplice are set to appear before a Boston judge on charges of stealing dozens of people’s identities, then using them to pass forged prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other drugs. Fifty-seven-year-old John Tropea of Franklin faces 67 counts of identity fraud, 69 counts of…
Month: September 2011
AZ: Glendale police arrest credit card worker in identity theft
Morgan Tanabe reports: Glendale police arrested a credit card company worker and her boyfriend suspected of identity theft and the use of a stolen credit card, according to a court document. Las Vegas resident Amanda Shepherd, who works as a customer service representative at Citi Cards, was arrested Tuesday. George Nelson was arrested on Sept….
AU: Hackers published personal data of 25,000 police officials
The Austrian Independent reports: An Austrian hackers group has published the names and home addresses of 24,938 police officials sparking fears that many could be targeted by criminals. Police say the data published by the Austrian branch of the global hacker collective „Anonymous”, known as AnonAustria contained private information for officials ranging from beat officers…
Millions of student exams, tests and data exposed?
On September 19, Darren Pauli reported: Multiple zero-day security vulnerabilities have been found in the world’s most popular educational software – holes that allow students to change grades and download unpublished exams, whilst allowing criminals to steal personal information. Vulnerabilities in the Blackboard Learn platform have the potential to affect millions of school and university…
2316 Reasons why Assad is finished, #OpSyria leaves Government websites with a message
Operation Syria has taken another step and now defacing more government websites. This defacing is not anywhere like your normal defacing. It has had time and effort put in to creating this template and the information with the defacement is strong and gets the word across. So far this is the best defacement i have…
Data Security: SK Communications Data Breach Due To “Cheap” Foreign Antivirus Software
Sang Lee provides a follow-up on the SK Communications hack that affected 35 million South Koreans, covered previously on this blog: […] According to South Korean media, the Korean Committee on Culture, Sports, Tourism, Broadcasting & Communications released a report yesterday noting that, of the 50 or so antivirus software available in the Korean market, SK…