Sadly, a hacker going by the name of brwsk007 has gone fairly low and hacked and defaced a UNICEF website. The website that was left defaced was the Irish office, based in Dublin. It shows that hackers will go after any type of website regardless, as long as ti is insecure its a target. content/images/gallery/random2/hacked-by-brwsk007.png View the mirror on zone-h
Month: December 2011
UK: 'Humiliated' woman demands justice in medical records row (updated)
Kirsty Gibbins reports: A county woman left permanently disabled after an operation is battling a dental consultant she claims “humiliated and harassed” her by using her confidential medical information without consent. Lisa McIntosh, of Haddington, underwent a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) operation on her jaw in 2003, which left her blind in her right eye, with…
Former Hacker Charlie Miller, Now Working with DoD on Cyber Security
Charlie Miller, a former black hat hacker who now runs his own company is now also working for the DoD helping out with cyber security. In a recent video released he talks about the ways he works. In 2008 he won a 10,000 prize for being the first to find a critical exploit in a mac air, in 2009 he…
Miami VA Hospital employee charged with identity theft
Jay Weaver reports: An employee at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Miami has been charged with selling the personal identities of disabled patients who receive services at the hospital, authorities said Wednesday. Tarakesha Kendrick, 32, of Miami, will be arraigned Monday on charges of aggravated identity theft and unlawfully selling the personal information of…
Heartland gets most of banks’ claims dismissed over its massive data breach
Bonnie Barron reports that Heartland Payment Systems succeeded in getting a federal court judge to agree to dismiss most of the claims in a consolidated lawsuit filed by nine banks following a massive breach that affected millions of customers. Rosenthal granted the banks leave to amend the dismissed claims for breach of contract, breach of…
Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union notifies hundreds of insider breach – without telling them what happened?
USB ports are so convenient… and such a risk. Lowell, Massachusetts-based Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach that occurred when an employee voluntarily left her employ on December 27, 2010 and took some files with her on a USB drive. She reportedly planned to use the forms…