We all know the recent news that the new pope has finally been appointed his official position, well this has sparked a newly launched operation dubbed [Opvaticano](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23opvaticano&src=typd) by anonymous hacktivist. The hacktivist have so far left many sites defaced and dumped one database from Italian based websites. The defacement has been carried out on four sites so far some…
Category: Breach Incidents
Attacks ‘highlight need for data breach notification law’
Paul Smith reports: The Australian Bankers Association has defended the strength of IT security processes in place across Australia’s banking system following the revelation that Reserve Bank of Australia systems had been compromised by China-based hackers. However, security experts said the incident highlighted the need for Australian data breach notification laws to be tightened to force…
General Services Administration discloses vulnerability; starts notifying those potentially affected
When I first saw reference to this vulnerability report, I thought it was a non-U.S. situation. But then I realized it was our government. Oops! Posted on the GSA’s web site, yesterday: System for Award Management Security Vulnerability SAM SECURITY ISSUE March 2013 Recently, U.S. GSA officials identified a security vulnerability in the System for…
More problems for Subway: Feds charge two men in plot to sell hacked Subway gift cards worth $40,000
Cyrus Farivar reports that Subway, who had previous hacking problems, has had other problems: Two California men were charged in a case involving hacking point-of-sale (POS) computers at various Subway restaurants in a newly unsealed indictment on Friday in Boston. The two suspects are Shahin Abdollahi, aka “Sean Holdt,” and Jeffrey Thomas Wilkinson, both of…
Fox News Taiwan Still Hacked and Defaced 5 Months later
A hacker who is known by the handle Over-X has hacked and left an official fox news website defaced. The fox news website is the official Taiwan domain (https://www.foxnews.com.tw/) and the defacement is in the form of a sub folder index so the main website is not effected but at time of publishing the sub folder…
14,000 Student Credentials leaked from KTU Career Center, Lithuania
An Anonymous supporting hacker using the handle Hacker sTz & sTz Bar has hacked a Lithuania based university and as a result over 14,000 student login credentials have been posted. The attack has happened some time in the past few days and it was announced via the hackers face book page but the leaked data was uploaded to…