Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: The executive in charge of protecting JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s computer network from hackers has been reassigned, after a year on the job that included controversy over his handling of a massive data breach and the departure of several top security team members. Greg Rattray, a former U.S. Air…
Month: June 2015
Ex-president of Charlotte car dealership receives 5 years probation in ID theft case
Rick Rothacker reports: The former president of a Charlotte-based classic car dealership was sentenced last week to five years probation on federal mail fraud and identity theft charges, according to court documents filed in federal court in Cincinnati. For more than 22 years, Joseph M. Carroll used an Ohio man’s Social Security number to take…
TeamGhostShell is back… with over 400 databases dumped
Lee J. writes: If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. […] So far there has been 444 different databases dumped from sites and sub-domains mostly being education and government based….
Spies Warned Feds About OPM Mega-Hack Danger
Shane Harris reports: Five years ago, U.S. officials refused to merge a database containing classified personnel records of intelligence agency employees with another run by the Office of Personnel Management, fearing that if the two systems were linked up, it could expose the personal information of covert operatives to leakers and hackers. Those concerns look…
Ca: CSIS website crashed by hacker yet again
Emily Campbell reports: For the second time in less than 2 weeks, the CSIS website has been brought to it’s (sic) knees by a cyber attack. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s website along with multiple other Canadian government websites were taken down 12 days ago. Internet vigilante group Anonymous took credit for those earlier attacks….
Europol brings down Zeus, SpyEye cybercriminals
The Local reports: Investigators from six different European countries, including Austria, have succeeded in bringing down a cybercriminal group in Ukraine. Europol said that the action, which took place in Ukraine on June 18th and 19th, resulted in five arrests and the confiscation of computer equipment and other devices for further investigation. The high-level cybercriminals…