Sarah N. Lynch reports: Institutional Shareholder Services has settled civil charges by U.S. regulators that an employee of the prominent proxy advisory firm shared nonpublic voting data in exchange for meals and concert tickets. The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday that ISS, a unit of MSCI Inc, will pay a $300,000 penalty and…
Category: Breach Incidents
th3j35t3r Takes on Westboro for godhatesoklahoma.com
On the 20th of may 2013 a very sad event happened in Oklahoma which has seen many people killed and injured and suffering greatly. Sadly this is the exact type of thing that a certain group likes to gain on and that group is Westboro baptist church who has a very long history of doing outrageous things when tragedies like this happen. It appears…
ENRC fears data loss from hacking and stolen laptop
Terry Macalister reports: The mining group Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation warned on Thursday that it may have lost internal data as a result of computer hacking and the theft of a laptop. The problems add to a complicated picture for ENRC, a London-based but Kazakh-facing producer of minerals from iron ore to coal, which received an indicative takeover offer…
National Cyber Security Awareness Week TIPS
The Australian government this week has been running a Cyber Security Awareness Campaign which is aimed at raising awareness across all ares of cyber security. The government has actually put together a neat list of 10 tips which act as good reminders to keep certain aspects of online security safe and updated, using social media, what to…
Automotive Giant Audi Hacked, 2000+ Account Credentials leaked by Xc0unt3r
A hacker who uses the handle Xc0unt3r has recently posted a leak from another Automotive Giant, this time its Audi. Audi has been a majority owned (99.55%) subsidiary of Volkswagen Group since 1966, following a phased purchase of AUDI AG’s predecessor, Auto Union, from Daimler-Benz.[9] Volkswagen relaunched the Audi brand with the 1965 introduction of the…
Honda Belarus Breached, Accounts and Data leaked by @Ag3nt47
Earlier today hacker @ag3nt47 announced that they were sick of Honda ads (sponsored tweets) on twitter and that they would be hacked. > I HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THESE TWITTER ADS!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU HONDA! YOUR GETTING HACKED! ~47 — Ag3ηт47 ♣ ʎʇIɹnɔǝS (@Ag3nt47) May 23, 2013 As it turns out they have actually carried out this breach on the official Honda Belarus…