In light of some recent virus attacks another one has come out which has left a small village without a computer to do all the funding and payrolls. The tow, DALZELL which is a part of Bureau county suffered from a virus that totalled the computer leaving in a un-usable state. Now the point i want to get…
Month: January 2012
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Hit by Virus
IT was bound to happen sooner or later, a space agency is now reporting that it has suffered from a unknown virus attack from unknown sources. JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is reporting that is has found traces of a active data mining virus. The virus which has been targeting information about the unmanned spacecrafts that…
Credit Card Dumps
IT seems that 2012 is year of the credit card hackers, with hundreds of thousands of cards being leaked this year already it has turned into a daily thing. Just today we have been notified of 3 more credit leaks, 1 from Australia, 1 from Israel and another from a variety of Arabic country’s. It…
Commentary: Morally bankrupt hacktivism
One of the blogs that I check every day for news on data breaches is an incredible resource called cyberwarnews.info. Lee’s blog has been the source of a number of recent entries in DataLossDB. Today, Lee posted a commentary on his blog where he writes, in part: So to all the hackers, CWN continues to ask for…
Game Hacked and Accounts leaked
The popular gaming shop GAME has become a victim to hackers who have attacked and now dumped a load of accounts from the www.game.co.uk website. The attack which has been carried out by unknown hackers contains usernames/emails and clear text passwords. LeakNote: We do not condone these activity’s in anyway, this is publish for public awareness.
UK: Crossing a line that should not be crossed: 8 officers resign over misuse of police database
Russell Myers reports: Eight police staff have lost their jobs after illegally accessing the confidential records of dozens of people on the Police National Computer. Of the eight, one police officer and one community support officer (PCSO) are facing criminal charges after an investigation by Essex Police found them guilty of gross misconduct. Another PCSO…