This time it’s accurate. Alleged NullCrew member and hacker Timothy French has had his bond revoked for violating its terms by using his laptop and connecting to the Internet. He was caught because he was using wi-fi while in his car at a McDonald’s. Read more on Chicago Sun-Times.
Month: November 2015
You Only Need One Password to Access the Allegedly Hacked Law Enforcement Databases
Meant to post this one yesterday, but got sidetracked. It’s a great reminder of how if you try to make things more user-friendly, you may also significantly compromise security – and in this case a LOT of government files that should be secured better. Aliya Sternstein reports: The U.S. government recently lassoed together a bunch of intelligence…
More websites hit by Armada Collective DDoS blackmail attacks, but won’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: An online criminal gang calling itself the “Armada Collective” has been demanding that online businesses pay thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, or face having their websites brought to their knees by crippling internet attacks. And, as the DDoS experts at Akamai point out, it is online companies who have the most to lose…
Ca: WorkSafeNB apologizes to 3,022 injured workers for privacy breach
CBC reports that too much information sharing went on when WorkSafeNB provided data to to Corporate Research Associates. The breach was not the polling firm’s fault, but WorkSafeNB’s, for providing details the contractor did not need and should not have been sent. WorkSafeNB has sent out more than three thousand letters of apology over a serious…
Tulsa man arrested on 841 complaints of identity theft
Kyle Hinchey reports: A Tulsa man faces more than 800 counts of identify theft after deputies reportedly found hundreds of stolen identity documents at his residence in south Tulsa on Monday. Wisam Sam Hibri, 33, was booked into the Tulsa Jail on 841 counts of identity theft and forgery after former conviction of a felony,…
UK: Norwich International Airport website hack sparks ‘secure’ update pledge
BBC reports: An airport has taken down its passenger information website after a hacker breached security systems, claiming they were too lax. Using a pseudonym of His Royal Gingerness (HRG), the hacker told the BBC he wanted to highlight the website’s “vulnerability”. It only took him a few minutes to hack into the site, he…