Over the past week anonymous hacktivist have been alot more vocal and active over the whole case about Julian assange. One of the most recent attacks have left a British MP’s website hacked and defaced after anonymous hacker obtained full access to it. The MP is Peter Hain and his website is peterhain.org and hack has left a completely new article…
Month: August 2012
CIA, MIT, Governments, businesses, 100+ sites hacked & accounts leaked
Its that time again where @TeamGhostShell releases a huge amount of websites that have been hacked as well as a load of data that goes along with it. The announcement was made via twitter on saturday by the main @TeamGhostShell account and the main leak file contains a messages as well as a huge list of related links on various…
Private Swiss bank Julius Baer confirms another insider data theft
Catherine Bosley reports that Swiss private bank Julius Baer has suffered another insider breach. If the bank’s name sounds familiar, it’s because another former employee claimed to have given WikiLeaks details of clients who were using the private bank to avoid paying taxes. In this case: According to the SonntagsZeitung, the stolen data on clients…
Data Breach at New York Utility Prompts Enforcement Action and Industry-Wide Data Security Review
Boris Segalis and Nihar Shah provide some follow-up to a data security breach at New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric that was disclosed in January. As I noted in July, regulators criticized NYSEG over the breach that had affected 1.8 million. Segalis and Shah write: The Commission subsequently issued an “Order Directing…
Will the High Court Resolve ‘Without Authorization’ Under the CFAA?
Nick Akerman has an article in the upcoming issue of The National Law Journal that begins: On July 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit became the first circuit to adopt the Ninth Circuit’s holding in U.S. v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir. 2012), that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act does…
Teenager arrested in Eugene school computer breach released
Back in June, the Eugene School District 4J in Oregon reported a breach. A teenager who allegedly obtained an employee’s login credentials was subsequently charged. An affidavit submitted to obtain a search warrant of the student’s computer indicated that the teen had admitted to using a brute force program. Apparently, the teen has detained since…