Emma Brown reports: Two Fairfax County middle-school students used stolen passwords to wreak havoc with a school software application used countywide by thousands of teachers, students and parents, according to authorities. […] An investigation led to the two boys, who had apparently obtained the passwords of a fellow student and 17 teachers, Luftglass said….
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UK: Namesco spits out phishy warning after credit card info leak
John Leyden reports: Namesco customers are angry over the domain name and hosting firm’s handling of a security breach that exposed their credit card details. A number of punters’ card details were leaked after hackers broke into Namesco’s systems. The web biz notified these customers as well as advising a larger number of its clients…
Ca: Privacy Commissioner Secures Abandoned Medical Records at RSRS; Rural Doctor's Lack of Proper Care is Met With Swift Response to Protect Patients
A somewhat self-serving, but still relevant, press release from RSRS: Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian, has once again asserted her commitment to the protection and security of confidential medical information after hundreds of personal medical records were discovered scattered amongst debris in an abandoned rural property in the town of Newcastle, Ontario….
Tit for tat: Israeli and Saudi Arabian hackers dump credit card numbers
Okay, I don’t want to get caught up in this “tit for tat” credit card hacking and dumping that’s going on between individuals from Israel and Saudi Arabia, but given that Saudi banks initially firmly denied any hacks (which I had questioned as no one had said banks had been hacked), I thought this important…
Hacktivism, Friday edition: Dutch sites
An anonymous individual who tweets as @Ingratefully on Twitter has acquired and dumped data from two Dutch sites on Pastebin. Presumably this is in response to ISPs being ordered to block access to Pirate Bay. Pirate Bay has been the target of legal action in a number of countries for the past few years, with…
CA: Viruses stole City College of San Francisco data for over a decade before being detected
Nanette Asimov reports: Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of computer viruses with origins in criminal networks in Russia, China and other countries, The Chronicle has learned. At work…