Claire Reilly reports: It’s official. Foreign spies compromised Australia’s government networks last year, and they got at us through our weather division. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has confirmed that a 2015 attack on servers at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology was conducted by a “foreign intelligence service.” The attack saw two computers on the BOM’s network…
Month: October 2016
Ca: Province says it might have sent tax documents to wrong addresses
CBC News reports: Manitoba Finance is investigating after the province revealed it might have accidentally sent six sets of business tax documents to the wrong address. A handful of tax returns may have been included in envelopes intended for and sent to other businesses, the province said in a statement Tuesday. The documents displayed the business name, address, account number…
AU: Attackers exploiting CBA health fund data breach
Allie Coyne reports: The not-for-profit health fund that services Commonwealth Bank staff is warning customers not to click on dodgy emails after attackers stole customer data from one of its third-party partners. CBHS was established in 1951 by the Commonwealth Bank as a health fund for the bank’s staff. It later separated from CBA and opened up its…
Computer fraud charge against woman involves ID theft of VA workers
Rachel Weiner reports: An employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs stole his co-workers’ confidential information and shared it with a friend who used it to obtain a credit card and access a bank account — ultimately making charges at a Diesel clothing store and with a plastic surgeon, authorities said. The allegation comes from…
University of Central Florida police trace credit card fraud to restaurant malware
Gabrielle Russon reports: UCF police have determined that a vendor whose restaurants had malware on its computers is the potential root of the spike in campus credit card fraud cases last month. The issue was found with AD Food Services, which operates Asian Chao, Huey Magoo’s and the Corner Café in the Student Union, the…
Modern Business Solutions’ leaky bucket provided a field day for downloaders
Update of Oct. 18: a vendor on the dark web has seemingly put the database up for sale for $200. The listing says: 58,848,308 ModBSolutions.com no passwords Business 2016-10 contains field “email”,”gender”,”zip,”state”,”city”,”address”,”last_name”,”first_name”,”updatedate”,”job” Note that MBS never responded to my courtesy notification, never responded to a request for a statement as to what they were doing in…