VietNam reportedly has its first case of prosecuting individuals for selling personal information: Three men in HCM City, including Duong Hong Le, Le Minh Trung and Hua Van Tuan, are accused of illegally collecting phone numbers and personal information of millions of people who are clients at securities and real estate trading companies–to sale, earning…
Category: Breach Incidents
Facebook’s 2012 Hacker Cup, 15 Days To Go
content/images/gallery/random2/facebook-hacker-cup-registration.png Well its that time of the year again, where facebook is holding its 2nd Hacker Cup that is due to start on the 20th, putting computer programmers thru a range of different tasks to see who comes out best. The top 25 will be flown into the facebook campus for final rounds and the 1st…
Update: Saudi hacker warns he is in possession of one million Israeli credit card numbers
Oded Yaron reports: The Saudi hacker who managed to steal 15 thousand Israeli credit cards revealed another 11 thousand stolen numbers on Thursday, and threatened to release one million total stolen numbers. According to a message left on the Saudi hacking group Group-XP’s message board, the hacker, who goes by the name of 0xOmar, was…
Singapore’s NUS confirms security breach
Liau Yun Qing reports: Hackers have infiltrated the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) backend systems and made away with a trove of information, including staff usernames, domain information and hashed passwords. University has confirmed the incident but noted that the affected data is not confidential. According to a report Thursday on tech Web site Secure…
OpEurope In Effect by Anonymous
Yet another Operation has surfaced that is being carried out by hackers flying the anonymous flag and has a clear target since the recent LulzXmas attacks,* “Our next targets are schools, universities, and government institutions throughout Europe.” *says the release for the operation. The have so far attacked a few servers releasing logins and a screen shot…
Nigerian Government’s Information Technology Development Agency Hosting Phishing Attacks
Well this is surely going to come as no surprise to most of the world, Nigeria, one of the most common country’s for scams to be associated with has had one of its websites reportedly discovered by netcraft toolbar community and reported on the netcraft news website. The Phishing attack which is coming form, ironically, the Information Technology…