This appears to be a defacement, but until the forensics are complete, we won’t know if any information has been accessed or acquired. Becky Wright reports: The website of a company used by Weber School District, “MySchoolFees,” has been compromised. Parents and students are being asked to stop making online payments through the site until…
Month: May 2015
Two arrested for Expo 2015 and Ministry of Defense hacks
The following is an automated translation of an article that is in Italian. Thanks to @Cyber_War_News for making me aware of it: They wanted to violate the computer systems of the Ministry of Defense, major institutional sites and national infrastructure. Two hackers have been arrested as part of the ” Unmask “, coordinated by prosecutors…
Epic played no part in Coast Guard health-data privacy shortcomings
Mark Sullivan reports: A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) says that the U.S. Coast Guard holds plenty of personally identifiable health information in its servers but lacks a strong approach to dealing with privacy issues. The report grew from a DHS audit that focused on practices and procedures for…
Simple Website Flaw Exposed Personal Data of Millions of Charter Customers
Daniel Stuckey reports: A security flaw discovered in the website of Charter Communications, a cable and Internet provider active in 28 states, may have exposed the personal account details of its customers. Security researcher Eric Taylor discovered the cable provider’s vulnerability as part of his research, and demonstrated how a simple header modification performed with a browser plug-in…
Federal judge locks up alleged NullCrew member, “rootcrysis”
Jon Seidel reports: A federal judge in Chicago ordered an alleged Tennessee hacker accused of targeting schools and big businesses taken into custody Wednesday while he awaits trial. The FBI arrested Timothy French nearly a year ago in his hometown of Morristown, Tennessee, and accused him of being a key member of the hacker collective…
Email attachment error of the week goes to…
Harbor Homes, whose employee attached a spread sheet with employees’ W-2 info for 2014 to an email to a former employee who had requested a copy of his W-2 information. The spread sheet included W-2 information on 189 New Hampshire residents.