For what appears to be a second time in as many weeks a self claimed security provider has come under attack from hackers who have left the company’s website defaced. The site is data defence https://www.datadefence.com/ and the defacement is exactly the same except one line as the one on the 10th of December this year. The attack has been…
Month: December 2012
Bangladeshi National University Hacked, Thousands of Credentials Leaked
A hacker who uses the handle @JokerCracker has just announced an attack on the Bangladeshi National University website and server (www.nu.edu.bd) which has left the site being inaccessible. The attack was announced on twitter and posted to private paste in the format of a sql dump that contains thousands of credentails of users and staff of the University….
22 Sri Lanka Government sites & Joomla webdesign site hacked
Bangladeshi hackers from the collective BD Grey hat hackers have breached and defaced 22 Sri Lanka Government sites as well as a Joomla India development and design site https://www.joomla.in/ that was left with a new index page and it would appear its not the first time this site has been under attack either. The attack has been posted to pastebin and comes…
Hacker Operations (OPS) of 2012
In 2012 we seen a huge up rise in operations of all kinds against many different targets, here is a simple break down of what operations were carried out in the year of 2012 by hacktivist from all around the internetz. Not all operations have been successful with more on the failing side then the success side and many…
Your Mobile Device and Health Information Privacy and Security
In light of a recent blog post about nurses using their own smartphones to enter clinical data, I thought this might be a good time to point readers to HHS’s recent resources for securing mobile devices. Their top tips: 1. Use a password or other user authentication 2. Install and enable encryption 3. Install and activate remote wiping…
Kroll Advisory Solutions Releases 2013 Cyber Security Forecast
Right before the holidays, Kroll Advisory Solutions released its predictions and advisory. They identified four unexpected cyber forces to be reckoned with in 2013 and offered some recommendations for addressing them: 1. Vampire Data: Organizations Get Bitten by the Data They Never Knew They Had Data exists in myriad locations and in a multitude of formats…