Lindsay Kastner reports: Confidential information about dozens of San Antonio Independent School District students was exposed on the Internet, apparently for months, and officials were scrambling Friday to repair the security breach. A Google search by a San Antonio Express-News reader who was checking out an unfamiliar phone number brought up the district’s “Potential Dropout…
Month: October 2011
MD: Labor Dept. Did Not Protect Personal Information On Computers, Audit Finds
Megan Poinski reports: Personal information about licenses and unemployment – including names, addresses, birth dates, credit card and Social Security numbers – was left relatively unguarded on computers at the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, and may have been targeted for fraud, according to legislative auditors. The audit of DLLR’s Office of the Secretary,…
General Dynamics Awarded Information Assurance and Cyber Security Contract by Defense Intelligence Agency
FAIRFAX, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded an $86 million task order to provide information assurance and cyber security services to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the U.S. and worldwide. The single-award task order, competed under the Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE)…
16,000+ defaced websites by SA3D HaCk3D
SA3D HaCk3D, has been very busy over the past few years leaving many websites with pissed of administration that end up having to do extra work becuase they didnt secure the website int he first place. Since late 09 SA3D HaCk3D has been uploading defacement’s to zone-h and it now totals over 16k different websites all of which have been left…
Indian Team Emerge as Regional Champions of the Global Cyberlympics Competition held at GITEX, Dubai
Dubai, UAE (PRWEB) October 14, 2011 The Global CyberLympics, endorsed by the cybersecurity executing arm of the United Nations, held its first Middle East and India regional championships at GITEX in Dubai, UAE. Conceived by EC-Council, the Global CyberLympics is supported by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), the cybersecurity executing arm of the…
Chinese Government under attack from Barbaros-DZ defacements
Over the past few weeks Barbaros-DZ has been leaving a common message on a whole heap of Chinese government websites. Chinese Government must be shocked at the amount of sites that have been accessed and defaced, the common message that has been left is abusing the government. All defacement’s have been archived on zone-h and so far there is up-to 1700 defacement’s by…