Anti-Israeli cyberattacks continue. Although I have not noted all previous attacks on this blog, in Pastebin releases over the past two days, data from a number of Israeli web sites have been dumped: From TopLinks: 56 advertisers’ links with the admin/MD5 password for KRNEWS From Bar-Ilan University Geography and Environment Department: 36 names, e-mail addresses, and…
Month: January 2012
GA: Tough Questions for staffing agency about discarded documents
Bernard Watson reports on a breach involving Staffing Solutions that they had reported last week. In this case, I think a business may get a bad rep for something that really wasn’t their fault at all. See what you think: “We will keep your information secure.” That is the mantra Shawn Poole has based his…
CA: School Accidentally Throws Out Books and Student Information
Ugh. Dozens of federally-funded books and documents containing families’ personal information were thrown in a dumpster at a elementary school and have been cleared out by school officials. […] There were also boxes filled with personal documents, including applications for free and reduced price meals containing financial information. “Documents that should have been shredded but…
De: Police hacked after top cop rows with daughter
From The Local in Germany: A hacker attack which infiltrated Germany’s federal police computer system using Trojan programs and a system of routes via Russia last summer was due to a row about internet usage between a top cop and his daughter. It resulted in the “Patras” server being closed down – meaning that federal…
Ca: Health worker loses job after prying into patient files
Gordon Delaney reports: A Capital Health employee has lost her job after prying into confidential patient medical files and later telling one of those patients she couldn’t trust herself not to do it again. The patient, Mary Schinold, wants answers about the breach of privacy involving health records at Hants Community Hospital in Windsor. Schinold…
101 Sites Defaced and threats of data leaks by Zhc in Operation 1m Vs NATO
Zhc( Z Company Hacking Crew ), THA( TheHackerArmy ) and a bunch of other hackers have struck out at a bunch of websites that have some importance. In the website defacing the back ground is a Pink Anonymous logo with black background (as seen above). The message that has been left all over these websites is fairly…