Over the past few days previously hacked University, Cambridge has been a target for on going attacks that have ranged from database leaks, defacements and ddos attacks. The attacks which were started of by Null Crew have been joined by other hackers who have left the site with a new article after its jalooma based…
Category: Breach Incidents
Shared Hosting Fail, 1169 Sites Defaced by BCA
A hacker who claims to be apart of the well known Bangladeshi Cyber Army has attacked a server and as a result they have obtained access to 1169 sites. The attack has left all sites hosted on the server defaced which shows that shared hosting is not always the best way to go, even more so when…
Collage of the mainland hacked, data leaked by @_s0lar_
Updated with statistics at the bottom. A hacker who uses the handle @s0lar has just announced a leak fo data that comes from the Collage of the main land websites databases (www.com.edu) College of the Mainland was a beckoning vision in the minds of community leaders as far back as the early 1960s. The first…
UK: Investigation as foster worker’s laptop containing children’s details is stolen
Rory Reynolds and Ian Swanson report from Scotland: An investigation is under way after a laptop computer containing sensitive details on vulnerable children was stolen from a member of a fostering and adoption panel. Police are probing the theft of the device from the home of an independent consultant who conducts reviews of foster and…
AU: Fat thumbs expose MP’s e-mail and calendars
Alana Schetzer reports that members of Australia’s Parliament got a lesson in using Outlook after what some thought was a “security breach” exposing members’ email and calendars turned out to be self-inflicted harm from user error: Department of Parliamentary Service acting secretary Russell Grove said there was no evidence of hacking and that the issue…
Hack of Red Boat Advisor Resources server containing brokerage account applications
Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation reports that the virtual server of one of their independently-owned financial planning offices, Red Boat Advisor Resources, was accessed some time between January and early April of this year. In their letter dated August 30 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, LFS’s attorneys write that the server held TIFF images…