Early today i reported that acer India has been breached and that a dump of information had been released by Maxney. Since then i have now had a chance to check this 41mb compressed rar file and see if it does hold the said 20,000 accounts. To get right to the point the leaked data does in fact contain well over…
Month: December 2012
Anonymous Operation BBC #OpBBC
Currently the anonymous hacktivist from around the world have many different operations on going, one of these is OpBBC which is being aimed right at British media giant BBC (British broadcasting corporation). Currently the operation has been put to a halt due to the on going troubles in Israel but last week hacker collective @UGBrazil released…
Some Australians may be too trusting
How many reports have we seen where people purchasing used drives or devices find personal information or data from the previous owner? Lots of times, right? So why am I covering this on this blog today? Well, because the findings from one study may qualify for today’s “This Takes the Cake” Award. Aleisha Orr’s news…
Help track the Advanced Data Processing – Intermedix breach
Regular readers know how I hate it when companies are not sufficiently transparent about breaches, – where “sufficiently” is defined by MY standards and not just what the law may require. So when Epsilon didn’t provide a list of affected clients, this blog compiled our own list with the help of readers and affected consumers. And…
#OpSyria What is it and Why is it being done
Over the past few days anonymous hacktivist have been focusing on Syria a lot after the government thought it would be a good idea to prevent any outside communications by disabling the Internet. Well that failed and anonymous hacktivist working along side telecomix have helped keep Syria online with a constant stream of news coming out. The attacks were started on…
'America may have access to Dutch digital patient records'
A scary headline if you’re Dutch, I bet. DutchNews.nl reports: The American authorities may have access to information stored in the new Dutch digital patient record system because it is being built by a US firm, Nos television reports. The system is being developed for the Dutch government by CSC, an American company with operations in the…