Well its come to my attention that the AU government has failed to secure domain names before it releases a program once again. Today they announced the bCyberwise program and after a few quick checks it came to my attention they had not yet secured the .com or .com.au domain names. To make things a…
Category: Breach Incidents
AU PM Julia Gillard Announces Cyber Security and Safety Program, bCyberWise
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard today has announced a cyber security and safety program that is in partnership with social media giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft and yahoo. The program is named bCyberwise and funny enough the plan doesn’t mention twitter but twitter was used by the PM’s team to announce it. > Launching bCyberwise which will teach 620,000 kids cyber safety….
Sri Lanka Media Centre For National Security Hacked, Pathetic Security Exposed
Game Over has been at it again, this time @GameOverVirus has tipped us off to an attack that happened a few days ago which has resulted in shame for Sri Lanka Media Centre For National Security (MCNS) website (www.nationalsecurity.lk). MCNS, the brainchild of President Mahinda Rajapaksa comes within the purview of Defence Spokesman for the…
McGraw-Hill Construction Hacked, 10,000 Credentials Leaked
A giant in the construction game, McGraw-Hill Construction has come under the sights of hackers from @DarkWebGoons who have left over 10,000 personal credentails leaked online from the Company’s main site (https://www.construction.com). > **McGraw-Hill Construction **(MHC), part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, connects people, projects, and products across the design and construction industry, serving owners, architects, engineers, general contractors, subcontractors,…
Zaxby’s customers need more information
When Zaxby’s Franchising Inc. announced that it was investigating the possible exfiltration of customer card information at 108 of their franchises, I contacted them to try to get more information. Unfortunately, their answers do not really shed additional light. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, spokesperson Debbie Andrews did not directly answer the question as to…
More details emerge on DoDDS-EU breach
A previously reported breach that affected students at the Ramstein Intermediate School also affected students and sponsors at three other schools under the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity– Europe (DoDDS-Europe). Until now, I didn’t know which other schools were involved, until a small item on Military.com provided their names. On January 7, DoDDS-Europe issued the…