Ahmed Aboul-Ela writes: today i will write about a serious vulnerability i’ve found recently in Twitter. so let me share the story with you . the story started when i saw Twitter introducing their new bug bounty program and starts paying money rewards , i decided to look for new bugs in Twitter and get paid. at…
Month: September 2014
Hackers-for-hire raided 300 banks, corporates for TWELVE YEARS
Darren Pauli reports: A band of hackers for hire have raided some 300 banks, corporations and governments undetected for 12 years, possibly the longest campaign of its kind. The German hackers registered 800 front businesses in the UK to target and fully compromise organisations in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria at the request of customers. Elite…
Napa County notifies In Home Supportive Services clients of missing thumb drive
The Napa County Health and Human Services Agency in California has sent out breach notification letters to clients of its In Home Supportive Services program. The program is under the county’s Comprehensive Services for Older Adults division. The notification followed the discovery that a thumb drive with unencrypted information was lost in the rubble after a big earthquake….
Double latte with your bogus tax refund? Feds win guilty plea in Detroit scam
Tresa Baldas reports: Free Wi-Fi at Starbuck’s helped produce $1.8 million in bogus tax refunds for some Detroit customers. That’s the latest identity theft tale unfolding in federal court, where two Detroit women pleaded guilty today to running a tax scheme. According to federal officials, the plan involved stealing the identities of dead people to…
UK: ICO will take no futher action against ambulance service
The Daily Echo has a follow-up on a previously noted breach: A watchdog will take no further action against South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) after personal details of its staff were accidentally posted online. Confidential details including sexuality, ethnicity and religion of nearly 3,000 of its staff were mistakenly published on the service’s website in October. Now the…
MA: Twin Sisters Charged with Stealing Mental Health Professionals' Information to Defraud Federal, State, Local Agencies
Here’s another case of identity theft for fraud. In this case, the names and license numbers of mental health professionals were misused to defraud Lawrence Public Schools, UMass Medical School, Medicare, and Medicaid. From the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office: BOSTON – Twin sisters who formerly lived in Burlington have been indicted and arrested in connection with…