Morgan Tanabe reports: Glendale police arrested a credit card company worker and her boyfriend suspected of identity theft and the use of a stolen credit card, according to a court document. Las Vegas resident Amanda Shepherd, who works as a customer service representative at Citi Cards, was arrested Tuesday. George Nelson was arrested on Sept….
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AU: Hackers published personal data of 25,000 police officials
The Austrian Independent reports: An Austrian hackers group has published the names and home addresses of 24,938 police officials sparking fears that many could be targeted by criminals. Police say the data published by the Austrian branch of the global hacker collective „Anonymous”, known as AnonAustria contained private information for officials ranging from beat officers…
Millions of student exams, tests and data exposed?
On September 19, Darren Pauli reported: Multiple zero-day security vulnerabilities have been found in the world’s most popular educational software – holes that allow students to change grades and download unpublished exams, whilst allowing criminals to steal personal information. Vulnerabilities in the Blackboard Learn platform have the potential to affect millions of school and university…
Data Security: SK Communications Data Breach Due To “Cheap” Foreign Antivirus Software
Sang Lee provides a follow-up on the SK Communications hack that affected 35 million South Koreans, covered previously on this blog: […] According to South Korean media, the Korean Committee on Culture, Sports, Tourism, Broadcasting & Communications released a report yesterday noting that, of the 50 or so antivirus software available in the Korean market, SK…
Yet another former employee of Electronic Data Systems convicted for participation in ID theft and tax fraud conspiracy
The other day I posted information on an insider breach at Electronic Data Systems that had pretty much flown under the media radar. Today, I came across this subsequent press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama that names yet another Electronic Data Systems employee who appears to have been…
UK: Card fraud on rise in travel sector
Travel companies suffer a higher rate of card fraud than the average UK business as a result of the explosion in card-not-present transactions. An industry conference in London yesterday was told that overall card fraud is falling, but card-not-present transactions have ballooned and retailers invariably bear the cost of the fraud loss. […] There are…