Niall O’Connor reports that a military laptop containing hundreds of 65th Battalion, Reserve Defence Forces members’ information was stolen from a senior officer’s home in Dublin earlier this week. As of the time of this posting, it’s not clear whether the laptop contained any financial details. It’s also not clear why the officer had the…
Category: Breach Incidents
TX: Lake Worth school district alerts workers of potential computer breach
Mitch Mitchell reports: Employees of the Lake Worth school district were notified Thursday of a potential computer security breach, Superintendent Janice Cooper said. In a statement e-mailed to the Star-Telegram, Cooper said the district has no indication that a breach occurred, but has notified law enforcement officials and is investigating. The concern has to do…
peruanosonline.com hacked and massive account leak
A social network website that is based in peru has been hit by hackers who have dumped the complete database online and left the site ruined after it. The site peruanosonline.com when check before publishing was displaying the following message. SQL query error! Error infomation:– – – – – – [SQL] select * from jcow_gvars [Error]…
Anonymous Launch #Operation Imperva
Imperva, a security firm has released a document on anonymous activities over 2011 which have sparked a new operation agasint them. The document from Imperva makes strong claims it reveals the way anonymous has worked in the past by studying them over a very short period of time.
LulzSec Returns? lol come on main media wake up!!!
A video has surfaced that main media seems to be picking up on, the video which claims that the infamous hacking group lulzsec is making a return. The video which was posted on the fawkessecurity youtube account sports some other interesting hash tags that have raised further questions. As for lulzsec coming back, we would like to remind…
Teboho Masoleng Sentenced to 15years for cyber crimes
At the start of the year south African police cracked down on a cyber gang who was in the process of stealing millions from hacked and phished bank accounts. As a result of this the first person has now been sentenced to serve 15years in jail for his part in the cyber crimes. In a report coming from a…