Iain Thomson reports: Two Verizon staffers are under indictment for allegedly stealing nude photographs from an attractive female customer’s phone and passing them around. According to the gendarmes, the two men worked at a Verizon store in Bartow, Florida, where one, Joshua Stuart, 24, helped a nubile local waitress transfer her data from her old…
Category: Breach Incidents
NY: First Niagara warns customers of breach
Emily Lenihan reports: This week, First Niagara Bank notified their debit card customers that MasterCard had detected a security breach in its merchant network that could put some accounts at risk. As a result, the bank will cancel affected debit cards as of November 13, and issue new ones. Read more on WIVB. As usual,…
Still in the dark, but the blog’s getting updated
I’m not in the 1% on wealth. I’m not in the 47% who reportedly don’t pay federal taxes. I am, however, among those who still have no power or light thanks to the incompetence and mismanagement of Long Island Power. I hope Governor Cuomo and my county do something about LIPA’s ignoring our towns for…
30+ Colombian Government Sites Attacked in Shared Hosting Failure
It appears that this weekend has been one for dumping data in mass loads from various different websites. One of the more recent ones that was posted on the 2nd was 32 Colombian government websites that have been breached and had credentials published on pastebin. The hack comes from hacker using the handle @Ur0b0r0x and was announced on twitter. >…
Anonymous Leak VMware ESX Server Kernel
Anonymous have made an announcement today that they have somehow obtained a copy of a earlier version of the VMware ESX server kernel. > VMware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. ESX is a component of VMware’s larger offering, VMware Infrastructure, and adds management and reliability services to the core server product. VMware is replacing the original ESX with…
Basic Analyst into #ProjectBlackStar Leaked Russian Data
The last few days has been epic to say the least, lack of sleep, hours of processing and normal 8hrs a day shift work as well. Anyway moving to what we are all looking for which is a full detailed analyst into the recent leak of information from 62 different sites which has been dubbed…