Kelly Fiveash reports: Thousands of National Lottery players have been exposed to a data breach allowing malefactors to potentially ransack customers’ transaction history, date of birth, bank sort code, and the last four digits of their bank account number, its operator Camelot confirmed on Wednesday morning. The company—which has 9.5 million players on its books—said…
Month: November 2016
Carleton U. hit by ransomware, students told to keep Windows PCs away
Iain Thomson reports: Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, has confirmed it has been hit by a ransomware infection that crippled some of the Windows machines on its main campus. Systems at the university started to go down on Tuesday, and its IT department reported that email, network drives and the central university student portal had…
Hackers Are Trading Hundreds of Thousands of xHamster Porn Account Details
Joseph Cox reports: Hundreds of thousands of user account details for porn site xHamster are being traded on the digital underground. The database of nearly 380,000 users, provided to Motherboard by for-profit breach notification site LeakBase, includes usernames, email addresses, and what appears to be poorly-hashed passwords. Although xHamster is a free porn site, users can sign…
Barrett Brown leaves prison still chained to a crime he didn’t commit
Dell Cameron reports: Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars. The 35-year-old cause célèbre, convicted in January 2015 after spending more than two years in pretrial confinement, faces a laundry list of post-release restrictions and obligations, including drug treatment, mental health evaluations, and computer monitoring. Read…
Prison sentence for former network admin who shutdown his former employer, an ISP
Howard Sheppard has the follow-up to a case where a disgruntled network admin took revenge on his former employer: Darius J. Prugar, 32, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today in federal court in Harrisburg by Sylvia H. Rambo to 24 months in prison for computer hacking and wire fraud. A jury convicted Prugar in…
Alert: Phishing Email Disguised as Official OCR Audit Communication
I received an interesting alert from OCR yesterday about a phishing scheme using their letterhead: Alert: Phishing Email Disguised as Official OCR Audit Communication November 28, 2016 It has come to our attention that a phishing email is being circulated on mock HHS Departmental letterhead under the signature of OCR’s Director, Jocelyn Samuels. This email…