I can’t remember whether I’ve ever seen parents keep their children home from school as a result of a school web site defacement, but that’s what happened in Yorkshire when the defacement suggested an Islamist group. Kenny Toal reports: A local authority has advised all public bodies and organisations to make sure their security software…
Month: January 2015
NOAA Employee Charged With Computer Breach Met Senior Chinese Official in Beijing
Bill Gertz reports: A federal weather service employee charged with stealing sensitive infrastructure data from an Army Corps of Engineers database met a Chinese government official in Beijing, according to court documents that reveal the case to be part of an FBI probe of Chinese economic espionage. Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, an employee of the National Oceanic…
Three million Moonpig accounts exposed by flaw
Darren Pauli reports: Custom mugs and tat outfit Moonpig has a signficant flaw that exposes personal records and partial credit card details for some three million customer (sic), almost 18 months after it was reported. The failure, discovered and privately reported by developer Paul Price, meant every account and the names, birth dates, and email and street…
Morgan Stanley Fires Employee Accused of Stealing Client Data
Michael J. Moore reports: Morgan Stanley (MS) fired an employee it said stole data, including account numbers, for as many as 350,000 wealth-management clients and posted some of the information online. The bank alerted law enforcement and found no evidence that clients lost any money, New York-based Morgan Stanley said today in a statement. The firm…
UK: Security breaches over Christmas on police’s website
The Eastbourne Herald reports: Sussex Police is investigating security breaches of its external website over the Christmas period. Three breaches have been identified within a contained area of the website and could possibly be linked. Amaraghosha Carter, the joint head of IT for Surrey and Sussex police forces, said, “A full investigation is underway to…
Feds still unraveling extent of tax fraud in Miami Dade College student accounts
Jay Weaver reports: A tipster walked into the FBI’s South Florida office a few years ago to complain that young cyber criminals in the North Miami area were using something called a “key” in street lingo to steal people’s identities. That key, FBI agents would soon figure out, was really a combination of names, birth…