Here’s another case where it’s clear there’s been some compromise of PII, but we have no idea how from what law enforcement tells us: According to documents filed in court, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) officers executed a search warrant at [Travonn Xavier Russell’s] residence on January 18, 2012. During the search, MDPD officers found the following…
Month: December 2012
Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers (and other security problems), researchers say
This will come as absolutely no surprise to regular readers of this blog, but The Washington Post has published the results of an investigation into security in the healthcare sector, and the results are… well, what I’d expect. The article is instructive for the range of problems it covers and some real-world examples. Many of…
Glitch imperils swath of encrypted records
Shaun Waterman reports: A widely used method of computer encryption has a little-noticed problem that could allow confidential data stored by almost all Fortune 500 companies and everything stored on U.S. government classified computers to be “fairly easily” stolen or destroyed. The warning comes from the inventor of the encryption method, known as Secure Shell or SSH. “In…
90,000+ Accounts leaked from ihya.org by @th3inf1d3l
Today is Christmas, but that does not stop the hackers from going out and breaching sites and leaking data. An Islamic website hosted in Germany IHYA (https://ihya.org/) has been breached by hacker @th3inf1d3l in the name of #OpFuckMohammad. @th3inf1d3l Earlier announced that there was a large leak coming that totalled over 90,000 emails. > #OpFuckMohammad @cyber_war_news Stay tuned. Currently sitting at…
#OpPedoHunt taking effect, twitter accounts closed down for child porn
Hacktivist from around the world have come together for an operation to expose and shutdown known Paedophile accounts that are posting indecent images of children. The op is dubbed #OpPedoChat and so far it has been successful with many accounts being reported and lots of them being shut down by twitter administration. The bbc reports that these…
Official website of The Crown Prince, Kuwait, Hacked For Xmas
Anonymous hacktivist have attacked a Kuwait government website (https://www.cpd.gov.kw/) that belongs to the Crown Prince. The attack has been labeled Antisec and contains a simple Merry Xmas message as well as a copy of the servers /etc/shadow file. The defacement has a very common design with black background with red text that has been seen…