Guest post by Jonathan Nichols Originally a long tweet, here My response to @20committee cc:@counterJihader Why John Schindler’s “False Flags: The Kremlin’s Hidden Cyber Hand” is wrong. By Jonathan Nichols First, I should establish my credentials to speak on this matter. I joined the army in 2006 as a PSYOP soldier (we deal in Propaganda…
Category: Breach Incidents
CZ: T-Mobile Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell Customer Data
Cellular News reports: T Mobile’s Czech subsidiary came close to suffering a massive data breach following actions by an employee of the company. Local media reported that an employee attempted to sell the details of 1.5 million customers to fraudsters, but that the attempt was detected before the customer account details were handed over. “Unfortunately,…
UK: Hacker breaches University of Greenwich, exposes 21,000 people’s data
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: A hacker who claims to be an angry and recently expelled student at London’s University of Greenwich allegedly decided to take revenge by hacking the school’s website, defacing it, and exposing the private credentials for over 21,000 people involved with the school. “So due to my elite skills and e-fame, you…
In wake of OPM breach, few sign up for protection services
Meredith Somers reports: Federal employees don’t think their personally identifiable information (PII) is safer than it was one year ago, but new numbers from the Office of Personnel Management show those employees are not taking advantage of the free protection offered in the wake of the massive cyber breach. About 21.5 million current and former federal…
Info on international students and hosting families exposed in misconfigured database
It may be hard to resist naming a database after a favorite movie, but a database named “Coruscant” caught a researcher’s eye when the researcher was searching Shodan.io for exposed databases. And the rest, as they say, well… read on. The Cambridge Institute of International Education (CIIE) is a Boston-based educational consulting firm whose mission is to boost the…
No data stolen in hack: NSW Transport
Updating a previously noted incident. No credit card or personal data was stolen in last week’s breach of the NSW Trainlink online booking system, the transport department said today. Read more on ITnews (AU).