The Associated Press is reporting that Fairon Williams, a phlebotomist from Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced to two years in prison. Williams had pleaded guilty in federal court on May 1 to engaging in aggravated identity theft while working in an unnamed medical office. Two years was the maximum mandatory sentence she faced. The AP report does…
Month: August 2012
Dozens of Atlanta police socially engineered into giving ID thieves their personal info
At least 39 members or employees of Atlanta law enforcement fell prey to two women who posed as representatives of AFLAC and requested their personal information under the ruse of the city changing its insurance options. Read more about it on 11Alive, the Florida-Times Union, and Creative Loafing.
Update: St. Louis-area women sue surgeon after she puts photos of their breasts on the Web
There’s more on a lawsuit previously mentioned on this blog, where patients sued a cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Michele Koo, for uploading before/after pictures to the Internet that could be found by a Google search on the patients’ names. The problem, at least in some cases, occurred because the patients’ names were embedded in the photos’…
Time Line: Attacks and Events from Operation Australia (#OpAustralia)
Time line of events from OpAustralia. #### Contents About Timeline Sites Video Gallery### About In July 2012 Anonymous hacktivist based within Australia started an operation that was aimed at the Australian government. The operation which has been dubbed OpAustralia was in fight for the recent proposal of security and surveillance laws within Australia. The operation…
Tasmania Police Site + 8 Others Attacked for #OpAustralia by Anonymous
Tonight was a very quite night, being very relaxing until about 30minutes ago when a user entered the #OpAustralia IRC channel on anonops.com and started taking down Australian based websites. As well as this the operation has taken sight to Tasmainian police https://www.police.tas.gov.au/ tonite with all "fire power" going towards them which has resulted in the website being offline…
Suzuki, JEEP, Fiat hacked, defaced by Over-X & Invectus
Two hackers using the handles Over-X & Invectus have attacked more automotive based website and left them defaced. Eairler we reported on the australian honda site that ws attacked and defaced to and now it has come to light that another one, automovite site that is has fallen to hackers. The website that have been attack…